From the daily archives:

Friday, August 14, 2009

Help, I can’t believe someone used this search string

August 14, 2009

Today someone landed on clayboy with this search:

was middle earth a real place

I shall say no more, but depart into the west.

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All go mad on health care

August 14, 2009

Some subjects have the ability to drive people well away from reason, and out into the remoter parts of la-la land. Health care is one of the them. In the UK it produces a knee-jerk reaction in favour of the NHS – today’s knee jerk reaction is responding mainly to attention seeking Tory right-winger (i.e. [...]

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Christian culture: attack of the clones

August 14, 2009

Once upon a time Christian culture meant the Mystery plays, the Divine Comedy, and Piers Plowman. It meant Michelangelo, Raphael and Dürer. It meant Palestrina, Bach, and Handel. Now, it means a rip-off copy of anything that’s popular. The latest according to today’s Church Times, is Testament Trumps. Dave Walker has the links. The Church [...]

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Baldilocks and the she bears: is the cross non-violent?

August 14, 2009

In my initial response to David Ker’s bad boy Bible meme, I mainly asked questions, noting that my most fundamental answer was that I wouldn’t preach on this passage. At least, not in isolation, since its themes need refracting, and of course, in the Anglican tradition one would always have at least two, if not [...]

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