From the daily archives:

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Memo to Establishment: don’t give the BNP what it craves

June 23, 2009

I am slightly puzzled by the complete silence of the UK’s political blogs – at least the main ones I read – about the rumours of a potential prosecution of the BNP. One can only suppose they are still distracted by the in-House navel-gazing of electing a new Speaker.
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From Biblish to Babel: questioning John Hobbins’ ESV love

June 23, 2009

This started life as a comment on John Hobbins’ posts arguing that the ESV was a church translation and the NRSV an academy translation, but it was clearly going to grow too long and so I post it here instead. I do not dispute that in any translation, including these two, there will be some [...]

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Some honest (no really) questions about the culture wars

June 23, 2009

I am intrigued by some of the rhetoric of “culture wars” and genuinely think that on the whole this rhetoric is neither commonly nor appropriately deployed in the UK, even while hints of it are beginning to emerge in global Christian circles (liberal and conservative) especially in relation to debates over sexuality. It is possible [...]

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