Author: KB
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“Turn off the TV, Forget Facebook, Just Give Your Kids Some Time”
Excellent article in The Observer yesterday: “There is evidence to suggest that this generation of parents who were brought up on videos and instant visual gratification are not going through cooing routines. There are fewer nursery rhymes, less song, storytelling and reading. All this is taken over by TV, which leaves parents free to think…
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Don’t Even Think What the Theology Graduate Would Ask…
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The graduate with a Mathematics degree asks, “Why does it work?” The graduate with a Science degree asks, “How does it work?” The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does one build it?” The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The graduate with an Arts degree asks, “Do you…
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Life For Free (as long as the poor keep buying) | Ad(non)Sense
Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised by the news today that Virgin Atlantic are soon to announce a free trans-atlantic service. On each flight, a small number of fee-free passengers will simply have to put up with being pinned into their seats having commercials fired at them for the entire trip…
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Gaza: Christian Bookseller Murdered | US: Pastors Use ‘Shoot ’em Up’ Halo Game to Attract Teens
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Two stories on two pages in the Independent today: Gaza’s only Christian bookseller has been murdered by the Righteous Swords of Islam. As if Gaza didn’t have enough problems, these fundamentalists think they’re saving the world by killing off Christians. There are only 3000 or so left. While in the US, ‘church groups across the…
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The Two Halves of Life
“In the first half of my life I fought the Devil. In the second half, I fought God.” Nikos Kazantzakis Angst about sin and purity; worries about traditions and who’s in and who’s out; individuation, desperation to innovate, neophilia. And now something… other. I am exploring. Technorati: Jung | Kazantzakis | Rohr
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England 129-10 Australia
Don’t know if someone at the BBC was having a laugh, or having a bad day, but despite the real score being just 12-10, it felt like 129. Nothing like beating the Aussies twice in a row in World Cup matches! How does that feel, Hirschy?! Technorati: Alan Hirsch | BBC | England | Australia