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Dangerous Representation ¦ Chocolate Jesus’ Penis ¦ Trickster Art

In news rather like that surrounding the furore over Andreas Serrano’s ‘Piss Christ‘, the BBC are reporting ‘outrage’ over a 6 foot chocolate Jesus being displayed in a gallery in Manhattan. The piece, entitled ‘My Sweet Lord’ is by the artist Cosimo Cavallaro has drawn huge fire from the Catholic League, who described the piece [...]

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Spring | The Compost Christ Flowers Again | SymbolLife™

Spent a glorious sunny Spring day on the allotment today. Jonny recently posted a photo celebrating the great weather we’ve had (on and off) recently. And today was another stunner. Having oh-so-mocked, it’s good to see Grace have an allotment now too… In fact there are record waiting lists at most plots across London. I’m [...]

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Spiritual Failings of An ‘Emerging Leader’ 3 | Literary Hypocrisy | God’s Ultimate Passion

There are a couple of book projects I’ve got on the go at the moment. ‘Signs of Emergence’ is coming out in July, and there’s been some work to do on getting final edits and, more dirtily, getting endorsements. And I’m still in a rolling process of re-drafting and sending out to agents a novel [...]

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New Wembley

Was lucky enough to get tickets to the first competitive match at the new Wembley. It’s awesome. 55000 people and it seemed half empty! The views from all seats are amazing. [Photos below]

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Kapoww…ouch ¦ Comic Bloomers

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen for ages. Real comic strips from way back. Really funny.

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Post-Partum

Amniotics spilt, and semiotics rupture; There are no words, just raw screams and suckles. Child of God, child of man – no difference: New life is unmoored emotion, a wide sea of tears and sick, one desire: to feed, to gather more, be mother-close. But God won’t stay. Controlled crying. Separation an immediate fact post-partum: [...]

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Everything That Is Wrong About Living In The City Can Be Summed Up In Two Words:

Aggressive. Drivers. Technorati: Aggression | Driving

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The Trap

Last Sunday saw the start of a 3 part documentary series called ‘The Trap‘. It is by Adam Curtis, the guy who brought us the award-winning ‘The Power of Nightmares – The Rise of the Politics of Fear.’ The Trap is very much in the same style – wonderful archive footage and superbly scripted voiceover. [...]

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Emerging Heroes…

Lego have quite rightly jumped on the Emerging bandwagon, and released this great set of ‘Emerging Church Heroes’ figures. Alan Hirsch Jonny Baker TSK Si Johnston Pete Rollins Mobsby Steve Collins Nic Greg Russinger Collect them all and get a free darkened room to keep them in (Thanks Jordon for the link)

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Saga | Photos

Saga has just started Flickring. Some wonderful shots. Cheer your eyes up with a lazy browse… Technorati: Glass | V & A | Saga Arpino

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