The University of East London, (where I studied Political Activism and Social Movements), is obviously under pressure from somebody….. or paranoid that it could be the site of an outbreak of old fashioned student activism. Their website shows that they have decided to close over the next couple of days, thus cancelling the alternative G20 [...]
The doctor has proclaimed me fit and well and quite safe to attend the BSA Religion Study Group conference which starts today – hurrah.
This article on Ekklesiahas well and truly annoyed me though, (note not the article the story it is about). The BNP have taken the WWJD thing and started to subvert it for [...]
Ok, I think we’re all a bit like the Steam Punks who want the best of modern technology and a bygone age. Sometimes it is easy for us to think modern life is rubbish, (as Blur once declared), but we are happy to reap the benefits.
I don’t have any wish to Twitter, (if you don’t [...]
The Put People First document is a document which seeks to put forward a set of recommendations about how we can move forward from the current financial meltdown. It does take the position of calling for massive public investment but also details how this investment may be obtained by closing the tax loopholes which many [...]
I feel this week like I am one of those life swap reality tv shows where somebody, for a week or so, artificially recreates the life of somebody else to find out what it’s like and fails miserably because it’s all so artificial.
Let me explain, my doctor has managed to temporarily exclude me from society [...]
I’m obviously feeling a bit better this morning, I’ve started the day listening to Ian Mobsby’s Greenbelt 2008 talk on What the Emerging Church and the Desert Mothers and Fathers Have in Common and it’s managed to wind me up. Now before I start going of on a bit of one I want to make [...]
Active use of my eyes is in short bursts at the moment and I am not even beginning to attempt anything I will need to make notes on at the moment. I have managed to finish of Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope, a book I blogged about back in February when I was about a [...]
Greenbelt is offering free downloads every month at the moment from their back catalogue of talks. This month it is John Bell talking about Faith in a Failing Church.
This will be short, can’t focus for too long today. The reason I apparently feel like I have been thumped in the face and feel rather wierd is, the doctor thinks, because I have mumps. She wasn’t totally sure, but certain enough to tell me that I’m in isolation within my flat for 7 days [...]
For anybody who is not on the Stop the Traffik e-mail list and so hasn’t got an update today, this is apprently Freedom Week when the March on Mars starts.
Whilst I appreciate the complexities involved in the whole fair trade debate, the change of position by Cadbury’s with Dairy Milk going fair trade from this autumn is [...]