Please do not read this post by Phil Smoke. Thank you. HT Lingamish
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I Pray for the World: Europe
Europe has given a great deal to the world. For a millenium it was the centre of the Christian faith and European scientists and thinkers laid most of the foundations of the world we live in now. This small Western stub of the Asian continent is the home of Newton, Einstein, Renoir, Beethoven and the […]
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Ethnomusicology
Rob Baker has just posted an excellent report of a workshop where he helped people from two Togolese language groups examine their traditional forms of music and explore how they could be used in church worship. The report is complete with photos and MP3 files. Get yer Ipods out!
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Religion is Harmful
NEARLY half the British think that religion is harmful, according to a poll carried out by YouGov. Yet more than half also believe in God “or something”.The YouGov poll commissioned by John Humphrys, the broadcaster and writer, found that 42% of the 2,200 people taking part considered religion had a harmful effect. This report comes […]
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Theological Argy-Bargy
If you want to see a good example of no-holds barred theological arguing, this post on Better Bibles Blog is a great example. Suzanne McCarthy thoroughly de-constructs some very wooly thinking by Wayne Grudem. One of the hardest things that a Bible translator has to do is to avoid reading his or her own presuppositions […]
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What Theologian Are You?
Click this link to take a quiz and find which theologian you most resemble. Somewhat surprisingly, I find myself as being like Anselm. I suppose that studying the Trinity has made me more in line with some early theologians than their later equivalents. I do have a 73% overlap with Calvin though, so I’m still […]
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One Laptop Per Child
Sometimes an idea which can seem good in one context seems positively daft in another. There is an illustration of this in Lingamish’s treatment of the well intentioned, but ultimately unrealistic one laptop per child project. This project is a very good example of creating dependency, which I touched on here. By the way, if […]
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Kiss of life from a hippo!
If you have never seen this very odd You Tube video it is well worth a watch. Basically, a hippo tries to save a gazelle from being eaten by a crocodile. It’s hard to believe but…
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Malaria Train
When I was in Congo earlier this year I met John James the BBC correspondent in that country. I heard today that he will soon be moving to Ivory Coast to take up a role there – this is good news. John is an excellent journalist as well as being a good guy (and we […]
If you look at a map of Africa there are a huge number of countries where French is the national language. Starting with Senegal in the West and stretching down to the Democratic Republic of Congo most of the countries (Nigeria and Ghana are the main exceptions but there are a couple of others) were […]