Posted in Capital Punishment, Crime, Integrity, Justice, Law, Prison, Violence on Saturday, February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5818334.ece
Harry Roberts, now an old age pensioner, believes he has served his time, and now wants to make something of the last years of his life
Richard Ford and David Brown
Britain’s most notorious police killer hopes to be freed from prison within months, having served 42 years in jail.
Harry Roberts, who was jailed for [...]
Posted in Indecency, Integrity, Roman Catholicism on Friday, February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7915022.stm
The bishop said he did not mean to cause offence
The Vatican has rejected an apology by a British bishop who denied the full extent of the Holocaust.
It said the bishop needed to "unequivocally and publicly" withdraw his comments.
Earlier, Jewish leaders said the bishop had failed to address the issue of whether he believed that [...]
Posted in Lent, Liturgy on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Christine
Lent
What will you give up for the season, To help life along In its curious reversals? As if we had a choice. As if the world were not Constantly shedding us Like feathers off a [...]
Posted in Crime, Police on Monday, February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7905499.stm Greater Manchester Police want to trace 49 men over the violence
A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a violent football riot following a Uefa cup match in Manchester.
The man arrested, a serving officer with Essex Police, was identified as a suspect from CCTV images [...]
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Holiness, Institutionalism, Methodism, Nazarene, Theology on Sunday, February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting morning. Sue preached well about trusting God and getting out of comfort zones. No problem…
Problem… we are replacing the pews with chairs. The church has discussed this, decided this, and today was the day that three sample chairs were offered as an option to choose from. Not only was this a fair enough [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Conflict, Consumer, Control, Crime, Culture, Freedom, Fundamentalism, Injustice, Institutionalism, Politics, Urban Decay, Violence on Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/politics/4738088/BNP-resurgence-fears-in-climate-of-discontent.html
Fears that voters are turning to extremist parties after losing faith in the Government’s ability to protect British jobs was fuelled yesterday after the BNP took a Labour seat in a district council. By Tom Whitehead. The far-right party triumphed in a by-election in Sevenoaks, Kent, a win [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time I have noticed offensive language linked to my last article. The links are generated by WordPress and not myself. So, please don’t follow the links, and please do not think I have made those links. Those links are beyond my control (unless someone can help me lose the one’s that are [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist, Capitalism, Christianity, Conflict, Consumer, Crime, Culture, Danger, Fear, Fiction, Fundamentalism, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Law, Muslim, Politics, Racism, Rights, Secularism, Security, Violence on Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the UK we have had articles recently in the press (broad and tabloid) regarding the fear of upsetting other religious groups namely Moslem, by the obvious presence of Christian books- ie the Bible etc. within eyeshot of others. As a consequence, some have placed them on the top shelf of book cases for fear [...]
Posted in Altruism, Compassion, Film, Integrity on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We went to see Will Smith in this film yesterday, and I personally was initially not sure about it. I still had memories of ‘Hancock’ which I thought was very poor in storyline and obsessive with effects and disjointed. Will Smith is very different (thankfully) and at last I was able to see just what [...]
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Freedom, Integrity, Literature, Religion, Secularism on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has warned that every child should be taught the Bible at school or they will fail to properly understand culture and literature.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4678369/Poet-Laureate-Andrew-Motion-calls-for-all-children-to-be-taught-the-Bible.html
By John Bingham
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion Photo: ANDREW CROWLEY
Mr Motion said that generations of teachers with less and less knowledge of the Bible had left even the [...]
