I’ve never seen one. I’m sure it looks and feels sensual and beautiful and all multi-touchy. This is not about whether it is technically brilliant or not. My problem is philosophical and it is summed up here: “FSF’s John Sullivan launches the Defective by Design campaign and petition to rain on Steve’s parade, barely minutes [...]
Archive for January, 2010
One Nation Under What?
Friday, January 29th, 2010An insight into survey research on religious beliefs in Australia.(H/T: Murray at Mentone)http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8858491&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Religious Belief in Australia Part I from CPX on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8857496&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Religious Belief in Australia Part II from CPX on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8857878&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Religious Belief in Australia Part III from CPX on Vimeo.
The Personal Side of Anglican Politics
Thursday, January 28th, 2010What its like to be thrown out of your church and home. Matt Kennedy writes at StandFirm.
Mouths of Babes
Thursday, January 28th, 2010An exhortation for infant baptism at sydneyanglicans.net: I really don’t believe that Anglican leaders have any liberty in this area, as infant baptism is plainly taught in Article 27. Beyond that, I happen to think the practice is perfectly scriptural.
Review: The Apostolic Revelation
Thursday, January 28th, 2010I have just read a very frustrating book – John Alley’s The Apostolic Revelation. It’s one of those books that contains much that is right – a great deal of experience, wisdom and understanding, some challenging prophetic truth about leadership and the church – but it is packaged in jargon and concepts made slippery by [...]
Adequate Retribution?
Thursday, January 28th, 2010I’m not one to deride the decisions of judges and magistrates – they have a tough job and it is worthy of honour. And those who think that peace will come to victims just because of the length of a sentence are often mistaken – vengeance rarely produces peace. But surely someone who dragged a [...]
The Bishop’s Man
Sunday, January 24th, 2010I don’t normally comment on the internal affairs of the Diocese of Tasmania (if you can call infantile sniping from the side “internal”). So I’ll leave it to a non-Anglican to express the substance of my sentiments (minus the caveats). Thanks Mikey.
Appealing People
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010We are running an evening series at church at the moment focussing on men, women, relationships and community. Googling around for some material I came across a rather fascinating article from, of all places, the research department of a dating site. The research was about the effectiveness of the profile picture of their clients. If you [...]
The Value of History
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010My first learning of history was when I study church history at Ridley College. I loved it. It gave me understanding of people and places and organisations and trends. It gave perspective on the problems of today. Phillip Jensen gives a mild rant on the loss of popular knowledge about Australian History: The history of [...]
Copying Gmail Contacts between accounts
Thursday, January 21st, 2010I want to copy my gmail contacts to my wife’s account. Ideally I would like to share them like I share my online calendar but Google provides no mechanism for this. That is annoying. So annoying, in fact, that it sparked a hulk-like welling up of my inner geek and the production of this python [...]
