February 2012
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Can God Heal?
This story has been floating round the web for a couple of days now. Essential the Advertising Standards people have banned a flyer from the Bath Healing On The Streets group claiming God can heal the sick. The reactions have, predictably, been rather hysterical. Here are two rather more measured responses. An op-ed in the Telegraph and Adrian Warnock’s blog (this is the better of the...
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January 2012
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Jan 27th
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pica
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
Jan 27th
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“Both sides were both trying, at least in part, to protect the truth, but their...”
– Kevin DeYoung referring to Arianism and Docetism in his post Nuance is Necessary.  It makes a nice follow up to this quote I posted earlier.
Jan 24th
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“The Argument from Aesthetic Experience: There is the music of Johann Sebastian...”
– One of Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli’s 20 arguments for the existence of God in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics (IVP, 1994), p. 81 (via Justin Taylor)
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“Some ideas are just complicated and not even a double tweet or even an extended...”
– Carl Trueman at Reformation21 
Jan 16th
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The featherweightness of belonging →
This story about belonging poses an important challenge to those of us in youth work/wider church ministry.
Jan 16th
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December 2011
15 posts
Happy Christmas
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. (James 1:17) For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
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Dec 16th
“What a year it’s been! Yes, as you may have heard I’ll be leaving Radio 1 in the...”
– Gilles Peterson to leave BBC Radio 1 after 13 amazing years You can keep abreast of all Gilles’ movements via Facebook, Twitter and on his website 
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WatchWatch
Mark Kermode goes through the Christmas Radio Times and selects some essential holiday films.
Dec 9th
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“Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City, the biggest casino in Britain, built...”
– Britain’s first supercasino opens at Aspers Westfield Stratford City
Dec 2nd
Stanley Kubrick’s New York  →
Daring Fireball says: Post-WWII New York, through the camera of Stanley Kubrick. Not bad.
Dec 2nd
Good advice for sermon prep
Morning tells the truth. From 37 signals: We’re working on something new over here. We’re stuck on the design for a certain screen. Over many months we’ve probably been through a dozen concepts with dozens of minor tweaks to those concepts. In all this work, and all the usage, and all the trials, and all the tweaks, I’ve spotted a pattern. Things that look good at the end of the day often don’t...
Dec 1st
November 2011
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Worship Music
I struggle with a lot of worship music. While the best stuff out there has brilliant content, musically most of it sounds like U2 or Coldplay. This is fine. I mostly like U2 and Coldplay, but they’re not what I would normally listen to at home. Mainly this style issue is because I’m shallow. Still, I do find style gets in the way of content at times. With all that said, here is...
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“It is likely that the debate about transformationalism will, along with...”
– From Carl Trueman’s post The Next Big Thing
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“There was nothing dramatic about that day’s waves. They weren’t...”
– from The Wavewatcher’s Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. Winner of the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. (via The Idler)
Nov 18th
200 labels withdraw their music from Spotify: are... →
The answer is probably no but an interesting read none the less.
Nov 18th
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Some (frankly too early!) Christmas Music
<a href=”http://sojournmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-child-is-born” _mce_href=”http://sojournmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-child-is-born”>A Child Is Born by Sojourn</a>
Nov 16th
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2 New (Free) Journals Out
Themelios (online & pdf) & 9Marks (online & pdf)
Nov 16th
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via thatluciegirl) Amazing story. (via shandel) I haven’t found a solid source for this quote yet, but it’s a lovely story. —Sarah (via npr)
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