Category: Theology
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The Gods Stoop to Touch Us | Loving David Beckham | Pete Ward’s New Book
Very interesting story creeping up the ‘most read’ lists on the BBC today: David Beckham stopped to help someone who’s car had broken down on the A10. The man blessed by this appearance professed to be ‘in absolute awe’ that Beckham himself had stooped to help him when his Nissan Primera broke down: He asked…
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Emerging Faith Must Be Combined with an Emerging Politics
The political shake-up in the Middle East is going to have serious repercussions across the West too. A democratic system does not prevent those with extremist views coming to power by the will of the people, and there are many in the US and Israel who are concerned that releasing Mubarak’s stranglehold in Egypt will…
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What Would Jobs Do? | When Great Leaders Die | Succession
The times are always a-changing. No matter how much we would like the status quo to remain, it never does. The movements that are happening in the Arab world are testament to this. At a more benign level, Steve Jobs is going to die. It’s not a prediction based on his current health, just a…
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Apple on Apple | (Steve) Jobs for Life
There has been some interesting discussion around Steve Jobs’ unfortunate temporary withdrawal from Apple due to ill health. Jobs is perhaps unique in that he is a genuine figurehead – and as Apple is the world’s largest company, that’s important. If he goes, what will remain? Andy Crouch quotes Jobs speaking in his Harvard Commencement…
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Two Halves of Life – a question on ‘Other’
I wanted to respond to a question that came through Twitter – always welcome, by the way – about the ‘two halves of life’ thesis I mention in Other. “I’ve just finished the section on ‘Loving the Other with the Self.’ Would you say that our lives are lived in two halves, and that these…