Author: KB
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Good Friday | Book Review: ‘God is Unconscious’
I’ll cut to the chase: if you are at all interested in what theology is — and who we are as people interested in it — then you should read Tad Delay’s God is Unconscious. Go buy it here (UK) or here (US). It’s perhaps the ideal Good Friday read because it gets further to the heart…
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Writing Update
As you may know, for the past year I’ve been working on a major new book provisionally titled Getting High. It’s ostensibly a history of the long quest for flight, and uses the lens of the 1960s to examine how we have used drugs, religion and technology to achieve this goal. It’s been enormous fun to…
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Apple Watch Out / Watch Out Apple
This will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law is to be on your lips. –Exodus 13: 4 After much trailing in the press, and a huge, concerted effort by Apple to woo the fashion industry, today, finally, sees the actual unveiling of the…
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On Entering ‘The Middle Age’
My aunt’s step-mum died a week or so ago, and the funeral is today. I didn’t know her well, and my thoughts have more been with my aunt, who is wonderful, a great sage (and trained psychotherapist) I’ve enjoyed many bottles of wine with. The death holds particular significance in one way: within my family, she…
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No More ‘God In the Midst of Suffering’
Perhaps it’s why he smokes. Giles Fraser is a good man. I’ve a lot of respect for him. But in the wake of the comments that Stephen Fry made about God being an ‘evil maniac,’ he’s written a piece that I simply cannot agree with. His argument that Fry has set up the wrong kind…
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Some Invigorating Shit
Very smart piece by Janani Balasubramanian in The New Inquiry 0n the move in the US by the Federal Drug Administration to reclassify human excrement as an ‘Investigational New Drug.’ I actually tweeted about a similar story on the BBC website last year, which outlined the growth in the use of fecal transfers to treat…