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Lament at Pentecost, the Benefits of Drink and the Scourge of Technology
Was invited to debate with Steve Chalke last night on the topic of ‘the Politics of Pentecost’ – which was designed to think about issues of multiculturalism and inclusion over the Pentecost festival. Steve gave a very interesting opening talk about this, which we then argued over afterwards, drawing in questions from the floor too.…
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Happy New Year you fools! | Dirt and Regeneration
Happy new year? Well, only if you’re from the Middle Ages, when the traditional time to celebrate new year was from around 25th March for a week. It’s thought that this might be the background to April Fool’s Day: when ‘modern’ types started celebrating new year according to the Julian calendar, they made fun of…
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Sharing The Peace (Then Being Right Haddocks)
Interesting piece by Damian Thompson in the Daily Telegraph (HT Dave Walker) about the perils of ‘sharing the peace.’ I particularly like ‘Spock Papist’s comment: I guess the idea is that you shake hands and show affection to your neighbour for 1 minute in the week. Then you can go back to being a right…
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Back from Greenbelt | Other
In conversation with… Kester Brewin from Greenbelt Festival on Vimeo. Fantastic time at Greenbelt. Was brilliant to meet up with old friends and have some time to catch up. It was also really good to be able to speak about ‘Other’ and engage with people about the ideas that it throws up. I hope that…
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Catching Up | Greenbelt Talks preview…
Just got back from a couple of weeks holiday where I took a proper break from posting. Space to think about other stuff really, and ‘Devon’ and ‘Wireless Network’ are not immediately at home in the same sentence yet. This weekend I’ll be off to Greenbelt, where I’m doing two talks expanding on some of…