Author: KB
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Soliton | Signs Book Launch
I’m very pleased to have been asked back to help facilitate the Soliton Sessions 07 in Ventura. If you’re in that part of the world I can’t recommend it highly enough; last summer’s sessions really were one of the highlights of my year. On the Friday night (10th August) we’ll be doing a book launch…
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Keep Your Relationship Together: Remain in the Gift
My brother came back from visiting two friends (not pictured 😉 in France the other day. They had sold up, moved over there with their kids and bought a tiny run down farm in the countryside. They live on/off it at pretty subsistence level with a few cattle to fatten and growing their own veg.…
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Alistair Campbell’s Diaries | The Best Summary of Blair Years | US vs UK
In a review of Campbell’s diaries, David Hare notes: “The virtues of pride, aggression and solidarity forged in the heat of New Labour’s difficult evolution proved pitifully inadequate to contain a neoconservative ally far more ruthless than itself… It was no longer enough to be on message. Sadly, for the lives of so many, it…
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Dirty Dog | Allergies Rise with Cleanliness
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So I’m having a drink the other night with this guy who works at the government’s disease control centre – he specialises in TB and bio-terrorism threats – and he says "You want to have healthy kids? The best thing you can do is buy them a dog." Apparently they bring such a lot of…
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Emergent, emerging, emergent? | Is Signs ‘Just Another Emerging Church Book’?
No this isn’t a lesson in Latin conjugation… but language and its evolving meanings are important. With the release of the book, people have been wondering if this is just ‘another emerging church book’. I’d like to answer that with an emphatic no! Part of the reason for that is, I feel less and less…
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More Papal Bull… “If It’s Not Catholic, It’s Not A Proper Church”
The Times reports today that "The Vatican has described the Protestant and Orthodox faiths as “not proper Churches” in a document issued with the full authority of the Pope." "The Orthodox church suffers from a wound because it does not recognise the primacy of the Pope. The wound is even more profound in Protestant denominations,…