Posted in Control, Crime, Culture, Indecency, Injustice, Law on Friday, October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Karachi
Pakistan says that it’s determined to eradicate child weddings
Police in southern Pakistan have arrested two people for attempting to wed a seven-year-old boy to a four-year-old girl, officials say.
It is believed to be the first time they have broken up such a marriage as the [...]
Posted in Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Deception, Fear, Integrity on Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5009583.ece Can a recovering alcoholic still have the occasional drink, or is it the road back to oblivion?
Penny Wark
Claire had been sober for two years when she began a relationship with another recovering alcoholic. One evening at his house he made a suggestion. “How do you think we would [...]
Posted in BBC, Consumer, Crime, Culture, Deception, Indecency, Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5033659.ece
As the BBC says sorry for offensive remarks made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, we examine the art of the apology
Matthew Parris
There are many of ways of not quite apologising, and they all take longer than the real thing. The real thing needs only one word. “Sorry.” Or if you want to spin [...]
Posted in Art, Farming, Holland, Tulips on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At first glance, it looks like a giant child armed with a box of crayons has been set loose upon the landscape.
Vivid stripes of purple, yellow, red, pink, orange and green make up a glorious technicolour patchwork.
Yet far from being a child’s sketchbook, this is, in fact, the northern Netherlands in the middle of the [...]
Posted in Abstract, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Bad Theology, Christianity, Church, Control, Culture, Evangelical, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Integrity, Restoration, Secularism, Theology on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Over the last month I have listened to two visiting speakers at our church. One point raised by one of those in discussion and the same point was raised very directly in a sermon by the other was the view that the AA are resigned to the fact that an alcoholic can never fully be [...]
Posted in Bigotry, Consumer, Crime, Culture, Deception, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Indecency, Injustice, Integrity, Journalism, Law, Mickey Mouse Religion, National Disgrace, Police, Politics, Racism, Rights, Tricks on Saturday, October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A little something from Moby….
http://www.moby.com/journal/2008-10-24/important.html
October 24, 2008
this is important: yesterday the right-wing news media released a story wherein it was alleged that a white john mccain volunteer from texas was attacked by a black obama supporter. the mccain volunteer claimed that she was beaten and robbed and that [...]
Posted in Bigotry, Control, Crime, Culture, Fiction, Film, Media, Movies, Politics, Prison, Roman Catholicism, Security, Violence on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/22/maze-prison-film-northernireland-hunger
Held in the notorious Northern Irish jail in the 70s, Ronan Bennett recalls the gas attacks, the beatings, the smell – and the jokes – and applauds Steve McQueen’s haunting new film about its best-known inmate, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands
Inside the Maze prison. Photograph: PA
The sky was low and grey and the smoke from [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Consumer, Culture, Deception, Fantasy, Institutionalism, Integrity on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4981065.ece
As financial markets crash, the reputation of Karl Marx soars. So has his time come at last? Our writer examines the evidence, while other commentators from the Left discuss his validity
Philip Collins
The world financial system is melting down. The credit markets have ceased trading. The State has taken a controlling stake in some of [...]
Posted in Bad Theology, Baptist, Christianity, Church, Control, Culture, Emergent, Emerging, Evangelical, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Postmodern, Reformation, Religion, Restoration, Southern Baptists, Theology on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Firstly, I am not a Baptist, a Calvanist, or a person who depends on everything being clear cut and convenient to measure. I applaud the writer of this article in the attempt to see that emerging does not mean abandoning everything, and in fact looks to reform continually. That should sit with people well, especially [...]
Posted in Bad Theology, Control, Culture, Fundamentalism, Institutionalism, Muslim, Religion, Violence on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/17/religion-islam-women-prayers
Amina Wadud’s decision to lead mixed-gender prayers in Oxford today challenges tradition, not the tenets of religion
Having grown up in a patriarchal community, I revel in strong displays of female power. Imagine my delight then to discover the prospect of history being made as Professor Amina Wadud becomes the first woman to lead a mixed-gender [...]
