I’ve given the theme a bit of an update. Please let me know if anything breaks for you. [Update, 2011-02-14 - tweaked a little]
Archive for February, 2011
“Saving” Marriage
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011The Gay Marriage debate is arcing up again. It is so much about spin and so little about concept. Terms such as “GAY marriage” and “TRADITIONAL marriage” are bandied about without any expression of what is meant or what the government is expected to do about them. A recent petition put out by the Australian [...]
Social Revolution Everywhere
Monday, February 7th, 2011A lot of people have been linking to a blog post at the BBC entitled Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off everywhere. It’s an interesting piece leveraging off the current ripple effect of the tumult in Tunisia and Egypt looking further sociologically and historically with a creative blast of big picture generalisation. The author Paul [...]
Churches & States
Friday, February 4th, 2011A couple of places in recent times where the Anglican Church is facing some interactions with the secular powers that be. Most people talk about church and state in terms of the church (supposedly) interfering with the state. Here it’s perhaps something more the other way round. Firstly, is the move in the UK parliament [...]
Update from Bishop Mouneer of Egypt
Friday, February 4th, 2011Bp. Mouneer gives an update: The morning gave us hope as demonstrators started to leave Tahrir Square. However, in the evening things changed 180 degrees when the crowds who support President Mubarak arrived to Tahrir Square and both the supporters and demonstrators clashed with each other. Fires due to Molotov cocktails and stones were used [...]
Bishop of Egypt on the Crisis
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Together with most of the world I have been amazed at how the ripple effect of beginning with wikileaks revelations and popular uprising in Tunisia has moved to Egypt and now also, apparently, Yemen. The Egyptian crisis is ongoing. In the light of recent attacks on Coptic churches the concern has been that a relatively [...]
Review: Stirrings of the Soul
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Mike Raiter is someone I, and many others, would place in the extreme upper echelons of biblical exegetes and expositors. A book by Raiter that deals with spirituality therefore grabbed my attention. I was expecting something that interacted with my two passions of studying the things of God and experiencing the things of God. With Stirrings [...]
Primates Meeting Ends
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011It started and it ended. With something of a yawn. Church Times has a good round up of the business conducted. I’m sure good work was done and some of the open (and private) letters are worthwhile. But in the end the whole thing is clouded by the failure (yet again) to seriously consider the [...]
