Year: 2009
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Action Jesus
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The End of the Experiment
Well. A week spent of “letting Go, and Letting God”. Did I learn anything? Perhaps. I think the answer is probably something lame like “the middle way”. Not that there’s anything the matter with the middle way. I think though an important lesson has been (re)learnt. As is so often with these experiments, we notice…
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The Experiment, (Day 3)
So, today we had a Taize service. This is mostly lots of quiet meditative music, with bits being repeated, softly, gently and in harmony. Things being repeated for as long as was felt necessary, but all hte context of silence and meditative prayer. I had already been asked to serve at the ceremony, which was…
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The Experiement (Day 0)
So, there I was, minding my own business chatting with a friend of mine from college about our different approaches to God. I question everything, and she “let’s go, and let’s God”. As things go, she eventually dared me to try it. Just to not think about anything, not to analyse anything, but to simply…
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A rough reflection on Term
So, term has started. I thought that I should put a few thoughts down so that over the year I have a marker, to show where I started, and where I was going too, or at least, where I think I’m going too. Where to start? Last year, as acknowledge by the college as a…
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Eve, distracted by the Shiny
Hello All, Here’s an interesting thought… Genesis, as a psudo-literal story is a very irritating read. There are two trees in the Garden of Eden, one of Good and Evil, and one Life. When Eve touched the tree, she had disobeyed God (NRSV Genesis 3:3). So she may as well have eaten it. Lets stop…
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And Finally…
A rambler, in an experiment in Human Trust has had his camera returned to him, full of pictures. Paul Bellis Jones left a disposable camera near the top of a mountain, with a note instructing people to take a photo of themselfs, and then leave the camera for the next person, and once the camera…
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Gay Scientists have Isolated the Christian Gene!
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Helenaism
Sometimes, when your bouncing around the internet, as I’m want to do, you come across things so deliciously bizzare, that you feel compelled to share them. Helenaism is the “worship” of Helen Bonham Carter. For those that don’t know who she is (where have you been?), she played Belatrix in the Harry Potter movies, and…
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West Bro Baptists get a taste of their own
I found an article where a community in Seattle faces down the mad, biggoted West Bro Baptists, run by the Phelps’. This family believes that God is punishing the world for it’s acceptance of Homosexuals, they even decided to write an open letter to the family of Heath Ledger asking them where the funeral was…
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Automatic Excommunication for Abortion
… though not necessarily for murder. This is one of those “I’m not really surprised” stories about the Roman Catholic Church. I was reading an article about how a nine-year old girl had an abortion after being raped by her father. A sensible act on an already traumatised child. However, the Catholic Church decided that…
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The Monk
The Abbot opened the door to the two visitors to the monastry. They were an odd pair, one in black jeans, and black T-shirt, the other with his hair in dread-locks, and black skin. He looked familiar, but the Abbot couldn’t place him. “Can I help you gentlemen?” The abbot asked. “He’s ‘ere for de…
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Sweeper
Edward was angry, working his way up to furious. It was his fathers’ fault. Being 17, ninty percent of the things that made him angry was his fathers fault. This one, in particular, he felt was his fathers fault. Edward would be turning 18 in a few months, and he was trying to organise a…