Found this and thought it sums a few things up quite well really. Enjoy!
Archive for November, 2008
Cake or Death – Eddy Izzard
Posted in Christianity, Church, Fun, Funny, Institutionalism, Integrity, Media on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Changeling
Posted in Control, Crime, Deception, Film, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Movies, Politics, Prison, Violence on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article5238837.ece
Jolie is a performer of seemingly untapped depths
Kevin Maher
What is Clint Eastwood on? How does a director who’s easing into his 80s, and was once known as a sharp-shooting movie cliché, simply get better with every film? Changeling, like Letters from Iwo Jima before it, is a mature, thoughtful and sometimes brutal movie that [...]
Apprentice star made false claims
Posted in Consumer, Crime, Culture, Deception, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Media, Muslim, Urban Decay on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tre Azam, 29, of Loughton, Essex, said he planned to appeal
One of the stars of BBC show The Apprentice has been convicted of falsely claiming housing benefits.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7755618.stm
Tre Azam, 29, of Loughton, Essex, who finished third in the 2007 series of Sir Alan Sugar’s show, was sentenced to 80 hours’ community service.
Chelmsford magistrates found [...]
Slaughter of the giants
Posted in Capitalism, Consumer, Creation, Crime, Culture, Disaster, Freedom, Injustice, Media, National Disgrace, Police, Politics, Violence on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slaughter of the giants
There are only 700 mountain gorillas left in the world – 200 in Virunga national park, Congo. The rangers who try to protect them do not always succeed, as photographer Brent Stirton witnessed
guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 29 2008 00.01 GMT
The [...]
R.I.P.
Posted in Christianity, Compassion, Culture, Funeral, Prison on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Found at: fromtheinside
We had a prisoner who died at the start of the week while in hospital. He had been gravely unwell for some time and his death was expected. In his mid-40s, he had abused his body so much through drink and drugs that he looked like a man in his 60s. Problem is, [...]
‘Whose crime is it anyway?’
Posted in Christianity, Compassion, Conflict, Control, Creation, Crime, Culture, Fear, Freedom, Good Theology, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Prison, Restoration, Theology, Urban Decay on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by coffeewithlouis
Prisoners’ Week 2008 got off to a great start here in Aberdeen last weekend when members of the local prison chaplaincy team spoke at Souled Out about ministering to offenders and ex-offenders. 500-600 Christians from across the North East of Scotland listened as prison chaplaincy team members described the effects of imprisonment on both offenders and their family members.
The theme [...]
A Dostoevsky Parable…
Posted in Bad Theology, Books, Christianity, Church, Compassion, Control, Culture, Deception, Dostoevsky, Evangelical, Evangelism, Fear, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Integrity, Literalism, Miroslav Volf, Mission, Quotes, Religion, Restoration, Theology on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Misroslav Volf’s book ‘Free of Charge’, giving and forgiving are explored. The first chapter discusses our motivation/s in doing such a thing and begins by using a quote from Dostoevsky…
“In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells a story about an old peasant woman, very wicked, who died without leaving a singlw good deed behind. [...]
Recent Film
Posted in Capital Punishment, Film, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Police, Politics, Violence on Thursday, November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just come back from the cinema. Today we saw ‘Changeling’ starring Angelina Jolie playing the part of a mother who has her 9 year old son taken whilst she is at work trying to make ends meet as a single parent. The film is a true one, and concentrates on the lengths a corrupt LAPD [...]
Holiness and the past.
Posted in Christianity, Church, Control, Culture, Deception, Evangelical, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Media, Postmodern, Religion on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here is one of those rare original postings by yours truly…
On Wednesday, some of our denominations leaders gathered along with church board members. Some came from the London area, Wales and the NW of England, and the task was to discuss ideas about the organisation of the Nazarene Church in the British Isles, and to [...]
BNP planning to seize control of police through direct elections
Posted in BNP, Conflict, Consumer, Control, Crime, Culture, Danger, Deception, Fear, Freedom, Fundamentalism, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Media, Police, Politics, Racism, Urban Decay, Violence on Monday, November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5167666.ece
Sean O’Neill, Crime Editor
The British National Party is drawing up plans to win control over policing when the Government introduces direct elections for police authorities.
Leaders of the far-right party believe that their hardline message will chime with voters when, as expected, crime rises during the recession. They can be expected to exploit fears [...]
