Category: Emerging Church
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Web 2.0 Banking | Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is
Taking ‘Social Networking’ and web trust networks to a whole new level Zopa is a platform for investors and borrowers to get together, totally by-passing the main-stream banking networks. You can invest a small amount each month by direct debit, or a larger lump sum. By spreading your investment around they minimize the risk of…
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Middle Class, White Reactionaries | Theatre and the Emerging Church
There was a superb interview with Edward Albee tonight on the radio which is well worth a download (for this week at least). Superb not for fluid questioning and erudite follow ups, but for genuine engagement. A couple of weeks ago I gave a school assembly on ‘how to write a book’ (small pond, education,…
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Long Live The Queen
I’ll add my congratulations to Helen Mirren for her Oscar win last night. I thought the film was fantastic, primarily because it exhibited ‘the miracle of restraint’. It would have been too easy to go for money shots of Princes William and Harry grieving their mother’s death. As it was, you never even saw their…
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The Truth Isn’t Sexy | Act Now
There’s been a lot of talk around the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, and rightly so. But, right now, there are more people caught up in the international trafficking of sex slaves than were ever involved in that slave trade. It’s happening right now. Young girls duped into thinking they’re getting a…
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The Spiritual Failings of an ‘Emerging Leader’ 2 | Lent
I have never, ever given anything up for Lent. Not once. Not one tiny thing. Oh dear :^/ Suggestions for this Lent? Technorati: failure | Lent
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The Trouble with Black Boys | Where is Stage 4 Pentecostalism?
Tragically, last night a 3rd boy was shot dead in South London, the latest victim of a possibly-connected spate of black on black youth killings. The police have responded by saying they are going to have armed patrols on the streets now. Like that’s going to work. Two of the boys were shot in their…