Archive for 'Culture' Category
Feb 20th, 2010 by graham |
The York Press phoned me and asked me about Lent and they asked would I be giving anything up for Lent. I think the reporter was a bit surprised by my replies. See the York Press article by clicking here.
Lent observance is not an important part of Pentecostal expression of faith and spirituality. I am [...]
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Feb 8th, 2010 by graham |
I have just been listening, on the radio in my car, to a remarkable interview with a lady in her 70s. She is to have her body frozen when she dies in the hope of being brought back to life some time in the future when technology has advanced.
I would really like to understand the [...]
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Feb 6th, 2010 by graham |
A distant voice? Perhaps they hear voices close and clear.
A man in an unconscious vegetative state has been able to respond to questions. While his brain was being scanned he was asked to think of an action, then a different action. Each time a different area of his brain lit up on the scanner monitor.
My [...]
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Feb 5th, 2010 by graham |
I passed a Ladbrokes and wondered when it was that their shops were opened up to view. It used to be that the windows were screened so the inside could not be seen from the street.
I don’t use betting shops so the change could have happened years ago or months ago for all I would [...]
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Jan 26th, 2010 by graham |
I was following a car and saw that it kept swerving from side to side to get back on track. Sometimes it would clip the curb and sometimes it would start to drift towards oncoming traffic before swerving back. I let myself fall back to distance myself from it as it did a slow zigzag [...]
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Jan 24th, 2010 by graham |
Report: Pitt, Jolie sign £205m split deal.
This is a tragedy for them both. I was not surprised though. I mentioned them both in a recent sermon.
An article in Daily Mail Online, 26th December 2009 was the first thing to alert me to a likely split:
‘We never restrict each other’: Angelina Jolie speaks about her relationship [...]
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Jan 24th, 2010 by graham |
A Christian British Airways employee who was asked to conceal her cross at work has launched a legal challenge in the Court of Appeal. Nadia Eweida is trying to overturn a previous ruling which said BA’s actions did not constitute religious discrimination.
Is is becoming increasingly clear to Christians in the UK that they are being [...]
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