Free speech is something wooly liberals tend to support……it is one of those things that is a “nice” idea. However, in reality free speech becomes something far more complicated. As the discussions regarding the BNP over the years have shown there is a fine line between free speech and discrimination. There are similar issues around [...]
Recently found myself reading My Life My Way by Cliff Richard. It wasn’t so much an intentional choice as a convienient one….something going cheap at a sale of 2nd hand books at church which I could switch off totally with.
Have to say it’s the sort of book which should probably only be read if you [...]
Yesterday I went on what was effectively a school outing to Belsay Hall in Northumberland. It was the Theology post-grads annual end of academic year jaunt out to do an ickle English heritage.
Anyway, the Hall itself has been sadly neglected and is a property in need of some major rennovation. Structurally it is ok, although [...]
Carolyn Arends has this article about why the arts matter, even in a recession, in the current edition of Christianity Today. It is an article which makes several important points about why the arts are important. She argues, from a biblical viewpoint, that we are created to participate in the arts….made in the image of [...]
I have discovered one of the perks of having a teenager who is growing up at an alarming rate….you get to wear their cast offs. We had great fun last night working out which t-shirts no longer fitted her, but fitted the slimmed down version of me. Thing was it wasn’t just the fit which [...]
I have wondered whether or not to put this on the net….but know that this is the space where alot of the people who have supported me in prayer during the adventure get updated. So here it is….the latest update. It’s taken a new turn this week. After alot of twisting and turning it appears [...]
Once upon wellington boots came in red, black, blue or green and were generally worn only by young children or gardiners. Now, in an age when festivating is an accepted part of the middle class summer, they are fashion accessories. The Independent has it’s pick of the Ten Best Wellies, just in time for Glastonbury, [...]
Loved this Ekklesia story showing the details of a Daily Mail poll which ended up showing that a majority of respondents disagreed with the racist nonsense being espoused by Richard Littlejohn and actually supported traveller rights.
Ok, to be fair it involved a Twitter campaign…and so the results may not be as accurate or representative as [...]
Today I finally made it over to the Baltic to explore the North’s answer to the Tate Modern.
Unlike the Tate Modern there are no permanent installations, rather it is several floors of exhibitions. Some are easy to find….taking up most of a floor, others are more tucked away. The first I discovered was tucked [...]
For Lent I took an approach which wasn’t quite in keeping with the true nature of Lent ….but was the appropriate course of action for my head at the time.
I’ve decided to put together a similar kind of action plan of things I want to do over the summer. Some of them will be [...]