Faith and a little politics
Image by skuds via FlickrHarriet Harman and our wonderful government was intent on introducing amendments to the Equalities Bill which could have led churched into legal difficulties with employing people whose public and personal conduct was inconsistent with the beliefs of the church. The government claimed that wasn't the case but the awful wording of … Continue reading Draconian Equalities Bill has it’s wings clipped
An oldie but goodie, Big Tent Revival at their best! Shame I couldn't source the original video. :(But how apt the words are for today's world.If loving God was a crime, I'd be an outlaw.I would join the fight.They could not shut me down. I would stand tall.What I know is right.Would you stand with … Continue reading If Loving God Was A Crime
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeIt seems that Fred 'the shred' Goodwin has found himself a new job. Apparently he's been taken on by RNJM as a consultant.Fred Goodwin was, of course the banker who ran up a £28 billion debt at RBS in 2008, the biggest loss in UK corporate history.If I was a … Continue reading Reward for failure, Fred Goodwin and RNJM
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeI have spent years resolutely not viewing Channel 4's Big Brother. But this years has grabbed my attention. I think I was attracted to the possible train wreck of Stephen Baldwin meeting George O'Dowd (Boy George). Even though George was refused leave to enter the Big Brother House by the … Continue reading Stephen Baldwin on Celebrity Big Brother
Just finished this book. You can read my short review below as posted on http://www.goodreads.com God's Batallions: A History of the Crusades as the First Western War on Muslim Terror and Aggression by Rodney StarkMy rating: 5 of 5 starsIt's such a joy to find a book that doesn't seek to downplay or denigrate the … Continue reading God’s Batallions – A Review
More persecution of the Christian On December 23, a bomb was detonated near the Syrian Orthodox church of St. Thomas in Mosul, Iraq.On the same day, a bomb exploded in the same city outside the Chaldean church of St. George, killing three people.Fifty people barred the doors of the Tafat Church in northern Algeria to stop … Continue reading Here’s some I missed
Blessing phones, pdas and laptops. IxploraA VICAR has launched a bizarre bid to attract city workers to his church by offering to BLESS their mobile phones and laptops.The Rev David Parrott issued his first blessing over a heap of high-tech laptops and smart phones on the altar of London’s 17th Century St Lawrence Jewry church … Continue reading What hope for the Church of England as a Christian Institution?
They're at it again. From thestar.comPolice stand by as church torched, desecratedALGIERS, ALGERIA – Islamists looted and burned a Protestant church in Algeria, the congregation's leader said Monday, suggesting they were inspired by a recent spate of religious intolerance in the Arab and Muslim world.The church – hosted in an apartment block in the city … Continue reading Christian Persecution Continues Unabated
So says Boris Johnson according to the London Evening StandardBoris Johnson threw down the gauntlet to shadow chancellor George Osborne today, urging him to rule out extending the supertax on bonuses.The Mayor is seeking reassurances that Gordon Brown's tax would not be imposed by a Tory government. The showdown comes after Mr Johnson claimed that … Continue reading Ditch supertax to stop 9,000 bankers leaving City
An apt video and hymn for today as we look out on the snow, beautiful to our eyes but deadly to the poor.In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter, long ago.Our God, heaven cannot hold … Continue reading In the bleak midwinter
