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Lent

Well OK then. It’s lent and so far I haven’t done a whole lot about it. This must change.
So - here is the plan. I have no intention of mustering the will power to give up television, chocolate, facebook, the internet, the underground, walking or sleeping. Instead I plan to blog [...]

values

This evening at headspace we talked about vision and values.  The two are co-dependent much more than I initially thought.  A certain vision is only achievable by adopting a set of values that match the vision.  If a vision is to create an intimate community or family then intimacy of some sort must inherently be [...]

temptations

There are many things which tempt me, some of which tempt me often.  At this very moment i’m resisting the temptation to break my promise of providing capitalisation.  I’m also resisting the temptation to abuse apostrophe’s in order to see a good friend of mine fly half way around the world to fix it in [...]

for the BIBLE tells me so

This evening I had the priviledge of being in the audience of the UK premiere of ‘for the BIBLE tells me so’.  An evening hosted by Sir Ian McKellen along with that all too controvesial US bishop, Gene Robinson.  The film was shown first, followed by a question and answer session with the two hosts [...]

getting lost in the moral maze

I like the Big British Castle and I like Radio 4.  This evening I caught this weeks The Moral Maze (you can listen again from there) which was a debate roughly centred around religion vs. science.  As with everything it had extreme viewpoints but I felt that Lord Wilson had a fairly sensible balanced opinion.
Towards [...]