Ok, with the reintroduction of the married persons tax allowance I was almost thinking about voting Tory at the next election. However, yesterday I came back down to earth and remembered the problem…they take a bit of a good idea and blow it. The BBC and Guardian amongst others have covered Cameron’s ideas for elitist [...]
The sky blue size 5 DM’s kicked themselves into a world
Where people listen to classical music
And call things by posh french names I don’t even know the meaning of.
The Marxists would argue I am suffering from cultural deprivation
Me, I just laugh and say they’ve let me in the academy to do
Punk theology and stuff
The talk [...]
A quick surf around certain bits of blogland and / or the inbox at the moment gives a few things to think about…largely, but not exclusively relating to academia….and also to the F Word (feminism).
Head into the Heavens has decided to blog some of her previous academic work, including her undergrad dis on “Feminist Fandom: [...]
I am writing this looking out at a perfect autumn morning. The cathedral tower stands high amid a sky of grey and the trees are a mix of yellow and dull green, a change from their summer vibrancy. The party conferences are drawing to an end and the shops are mixing halloween wares with Christmas [...]
Last night I walked into the A Level section of the local college and sat watching a presentation given by a 30 something, 5ft 3ish tutor with glasses, dressed smartly in the usual FE type outfit of Next trousers, white top and black cardigan. The woman giving the presentation introduced herself as “one of the [...]
Beyond the Mail and Express headlines run another set of stories about the immigration system in this country. They are the stories increasingly being picked up by the religious press and others, but only representing the tip of the ice-berg. Sitting with a close friend recently and realising her lack of knowledge and shock as [...]
The conference season is starting and in the mist of a global recession the debates about spending cuts and the welfare state are taking centre stage. With an election only months away, and a disillusioned electorate this year matters. Radical changes and solutions are needed to get us out of the hole which has been [...]
Miffy has raised an interesting question, following on from the post yesterday, about “how do we lessen the split”. I assume she is talking about the “split” I referred to between “professional clergy and academics” and “the layity”. Although she could also be referring to the split between “those in church” and “those out of [...]
This year at Greenbelt there were a few things that happened which made me smile about how much I have moved on from the evangelical bubble and also about how some of that still comes into my mind as “natural thinking”.
One of the things that had me thinking about this the subject of mission. [...]
Herrington Country Park, just outside Sunderland, provided a very English Sunday experience yesterday. There were ducks and geese on a serene lake, lush green grass sloping in various directions and a strange stone sculpture on the horizon, but within the park, in one direction. In the other direction you could look over and see the [...]