Learning from your Enemies
Krish Kandiah has a blog post up about how Tom Wright ( N.T. Wright) is the christian equivalent of marmite. In the article he raises this point: “For some of my friends its all or nothing with the theologians they like. There’s a tick list – a writer needs to tick the boxes on a [...]
I Hate Christian T-shirts: A Rant
That title is maybe a little strong. I don’t hate all christian t-shirts. But I do hate some of them. especially the ones below that I saw today: If you will be so kind, let me spell out why I hate these two particular t-shirts. GOSPEL- God’s only son provides eternal life Now late me [...]
Should Christians Be Causing More Chaos?
I watched “The Dark Knight” again last night and I am still pretty much in awe of it. Both as a film and as a series of ideas, of which there are many. This time around what I was most intrigued by was the Joker’s conversation with Harvey ‘Two Face’ in the hospital. He said, [...]
What Would Jesus Say to Bruno?
In 2006 ‘Borat’ brought to light the xenophobia at the heart of America. ‘Bruno’s’ attack was a little more scattershot. Over the course of 86 minutes he took aim at celebrity culture, fame, homophobia and how Osama Bin Laden looks like a “dirty wizard”. As Tim Berroth says on “Hollywood Jesus”, it would be too [...]
And the walls came tumbling down
It’s only the start of the lent but I have still managed to break my promise. We had some family staying over during the weekend and I didn’t get a chance to get up early on Friday or Saturday to continue “my lent”. Hopefully that’s the last time it will happen. Today, I was reading [...]
ManHunt 2 and a question of censorship
I got my new macbook pro today. Yeah! Whilst I waited for it to move all my settings from my mac pro and install leopard, I had a gander at the entertainment news and spotted the story below.The BBC reported today that the BBFC have won the right to fight the UK release of the videogame [...]
