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Jesus vs. Christians

I came across this video via Bishop Alan’s Blog.  I utterly relate to the dichotomy between how people think of Jesus and how people think of Christians.  Why is there such a gap when ‘Christ’s followers’ are meant to be mimicking the love, acceptance and subversive nature of Jesus that people really like and relate to?  The [...]

What sort of history are we trying to make?

This week I’ve been hounded by a few friends to purchase a track by Delirious in order to get them to the top of the charts.  This is in an effort to copy the successful social media campaign to get Rage Against The Machine’s Killing in the Name Of to the top of the Christmas [...]

Are we human?

On the latest Killer’s album (Day and Night) Brandon Flowers asks “are we human or are we dancer[s]“?  I really like this - for me is probing what it is to be human, maybe touching on our spirituality, primal desire and recent lust for knowledge.
People seem to be able to relate.
I expect that maybe 99% [...]

At frickin’ last!

It’s been a long time coming.  Sometime in the last couple of days I picked up a new fifty pence coin.  If I knew where I’d go back and kiss the shop assistant.  I now present the completed UK coin set blu-tac’d to my desk:

It seems that it is the cumulative effect of small things [...]

Finding a “special someone”

So here is a question for you to ponder….
Is it easier to find someone to spend the rest of your life with when you are younger or older?
As we get older I’d like to suggest that:

we gain more life experience
we have more specific points of view (i.e. mindset)
we become more understanding of others

So is it [...]