Entries Tagged as 'The World'
Off to the Alps thanks to google
December 15th, 2007 · Comments Off
Well at least in part to google… …As you may have noticed there hasn’t quite been the usual level of blogging this week, this is mostly to do with the fact that I am working like a mad man at work to allow myself a week off before Christmas to go snowboarding in the alps. [...]
Tags: My Life · Technology · The World · Web 2.0 · travel
YWAM Colorado Shootings
December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off
I heard about this last night from a few of my friends who are in YWAM, it is a horrendous tragedy and no words can express the grief and pain that these circumstances merit. Please be praying for the families of those who have lost, the two guys who survived who will undoubtedly be suffering [...]
Tags: Christian Living · The World
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging · Christian Living · Church · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · The World · Theology Thoughts
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 [...]
Tags: Justice · The World · Theology Thoughts
Some news before the weekend
November 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
A few things which caught my interest today which you can peruse for the weekend: 1) Its an old story but here are 15 interesting points as to why facebook is so sucessful, and worth so much BBC News - There are a lot of naysayers when it comes to social networking sites and facebook in [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World
Political History repeating itself?
November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off
Today I was reading about the continued scandal of dodgy funding for labour leadership campaigns, and couldn’t but see that in a very macro sense how much we’ve been here before. A Big Charasmatic leader(1) who brings renewal to their political party(2) and hangs on to power for the best part of a decade only [...]
Tags: The World
Stem Cells – Ethical as well as scientific breakthrough?
November 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off
While dipping my toe into the water of stem cell ethics, and wrestling (only shortly) with my own thoughts on the matter, a huge transition has been announced this week (which I picked up from my weekly newspaper read at Church) which takes the ethical issue out of its familiar context. Essentially (and in hidiously simplistic, [...]
Tags: Technology · The World · Theology Thoughts
Obituaries
November 9th, 2007 · Comments Off
I often read obituaries and try and discern their lives path, the victories, the defeats. I have linked two recent obituaries which each have an interesting and commendable story to tell: The Reverend Chad Varah – Founder of the Samaritans The Reverend Chad Varah founded Samaritans with one telephone line and saw it grow into [...]
Tags: Christian Living · The World
St. Augustine uses a mac and John Calvin uses Windows?
November 8th, 2007 · Comments Off
I found this very interesting text on how Mac and Windows users are correlated to the Catholic/Protestant divide, I often find the sociology of these two groups (Catholic and Protestants) to be very interesting. The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I [...]
Tags: Apple · Blogging · Church · Miscellaneous · Technology · The World
Crazy Laws
November 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Its true, the UK is the most prolific legislator in the world, and of course within the masses over the years has been some pretty crazy laws. There has been a national poll recently highlighting some of the "unorthodox" laws in the UK. This may be a myth but I once heard there is a [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World
