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I was taught by Simon Gathercole while at Aberdeen and really enjoyed this interview.

Peter Williams (right), warden at Tyndale House, Cambridge, and Simon Gathercole (center), senior lecturer in New Testament Studies at Cambridge University, have reached the highest levels of scholarship and maintained evangelical faith. But how?

Justin Taylor sat down last month with these two accomplished scholars in Louisville and discussed the challenges of maintaining robust orthodoxy in academia and the importance of the local church. He kicked off the conversation by asking Williams to offer a short explanation for why we should take note of Gathercole’s research on the Gospel of Thomas.

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How handmade glasses are made. Some of the processes used at Oliver Goldsmith, a glasses manufacturer in West London.

Oliver Goldsmith - Handmade since 1926

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As I bent down to look, just opposite
A shape within the wat’ry gleam appear’d,
Bending to look on me. I started back,
It started back; but pleas’d I soon return’d
Pleas’d it return’d as soon with answering looks
Of sympathy and love. There I had fix’d
Mine eyes till now, and pin’d with vain desire,

This section of Paradise Lost, Book 4 by John Milton describes Eve being ominously captivated by her own reflection. It is a wonderful picture of how sin turns the life giving love of God in on itself. Instead of loving God and others, as we were created to, we begin to love only ourselves.

Proper love is seen most perfectly in the trinity, which we’ll be focusing on this Sunday at St. C’s.

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How Deep The Father’s Love - By Page CXVI - Official Music Video (by pagecxvi)

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Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel, The Shining. This well-worn book, normally housed in the Stanley Kubrick Archive in London but currently on tour in a traveling exhibition, is filled with Kubrick’s notes and comments. Many passages are highlighted, and Kubrick has filled the margins with hand-written notes that run the gamut from notating passages that inspired him, to crossing out sections he found silly.

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Sunny Day (Taken with instagram)

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Stylin (Taken with instagram)

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Judd Apatow Confirmed to Produce a New Pee-wee Herman Movie

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The robots asked the Munich Machine to go into a vocal booth and speak about his life. In the studio were multiple microphones of various vintages from the 60s to today. When Moroder asked the engineer why they had so many mics, he replied that the mic they would use would depend on what decade of his life he was speaking about. When Moroder asked if anyone would know the difference, the engineer replied ‘They will know.’

From URB’s report about electronic pioneer Giorgio Moroder’s recent studio stint with Daft Punk. (via pitchfork)

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The last time I saw paintings as deluded as Damien Hirst’s latest works, the artist’s name was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

Jonathon Jones really doesn’t like Damien Hirst’s new exhibit ‘Two Weeks One Summer’

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The LA Public Library’s 1928 bookmobile for the sick.

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Beck’s forthcoming one-off single on Third Man Records— fronted by the awesomely titled “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” and featuring production and instrumentation from Jack White— is out May 28.

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Like tribute albums?

No me neither but these from the Sterogum blog do look pretty good.

(Click the cover for track listing and downloads (all legal)

Drive XV - A tribute to REM’s Automatic For The People

OKX - A tribute to Radiohead’s OK Computer

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Recording her first album (Taken with instagram)

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The biggest crowd of the festival I’ve seen so far congregates for Jake Bugg, whose Radio 1-conquering song Trouble Town suggested a Jamie T-style troubadour with a hint of the Las and the Coral. Tonight’s set bears the influence of all three, but the spectre of Ed Sheeran’s acoustic trustafarian blues tempers the tone and it’s a strangely static and muted affair.

I love snarky cooler-than-thou music reviews!

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