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Entries from December 2007

Mid Week Round up

December 5th, 2007 · Comments Off

After staying away from google reader for a few days I returned to a massive buildup of the best part of 300 posts, but in the end it all seemed worth it as I stumbled across some really excellent stuff that has been published online in the last few days. So below I thought I [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Christian Living · Church · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · The World · Theology Thoughts

Delta Spirit – Rocking the World

December 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

As you’ll see from my scrobbling iTunes track on last.fm I have been devouring Delta Spirit’s album Ode to Sunshine. I’ve mentioned the guys a few times on the blog before, and they are Great! The album has been entirely done by themselves, no label or distribution at all and stating they didn’t trust anyone with [...]

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Tags: Music

Just war/Pacifism – Hauerwas engages the context

December 4th, 2007 · Comments Off

I have been reading some of Hauerwas’ thoughts on non-violence in light of my own grapplings with it, Even if I can’t be quite a fully paid up memer of club Hauerwas I really appreciate the consistent willingness of Hauerwas to pin his christian-ethical convictions down into practise, surely that is the only way we as [...]

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Tags: Justice · The World · Theology Thoughts

The struggle to become powerless

December 4th, 2007 · Comments Off

"What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life." -In the Name of Jesus, [...]

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Tags: Theology Thoughts

Ray LaMontagne – Empty (BBC FOUR Session)

December 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

 

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Tags: Music

Windoze Live Search

December 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

With a new generation of windows online products such as windows live and all the fancy things microsoft are trying to detract from google. Its a fair competition for once in the history of microsoft, in fact microsoft might even have the disadvantage, and thats why I wondering whether Im witnessing some dodgy practise going [...]

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Tags: Technology · Web 2.0