Advent 2009.
Lectionary Readings:
1st Sunday of Advent
Amos 1:1-5, 13-2:8 1 Thess 5:1-11 Luke 21:5-19
Here we go folks, the first Sunday in Advent.
Introduction to Advent
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent means “coming” and in this season we prepare for the coming of Christ. One of the ways we prepare for his coming is by making [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Advent 2009
Posted in Advent, Christianity, Christmas, Christology, Church, Compassion, Good Theology, Holiness, Homeless, Injustice, Reconciliation, Restoration, Theology on Monday, November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Advent…
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year has been a strange one, and the last 3-4 months especially have been puzzling, frustrating and yet, out of all that there has been some exceptional moments. My split life continues as I have certain areas of my life story that I can never let the prisoners know, but the strangest thing is [...]
Celebrities lead charge against Scientology
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York
The Observer, Sunday 22 November 2009
Article history
The exterior of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles in 2003. Photograph: Getty Images
The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston’s waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who [...]
Capital Punishment, Ye sor No? – An Argument Against it
Posted in Capital Punishment, Crime on Saturday, November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://aavey.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/my-ba-hons-dissertation/dissertation-final-copy/
Above is the link to my BA Dissertation on Capital Punishment..
I posted it a while back, but I want to encourage others thoughts and discussion on the subject. A subject that rears it’s ugly head every so often.
Church of England set to lose a tenth of its clergy in five years
Posted in Anglican, Culture, Institution, Institutionalism, Integrity on Saturday, November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The benefits of state privilege eventually crack. This is a vital time, not a time of doom and gloom, but a time of rediscovery of meaning and praxis. It needs to go through another reformation….
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6935618.ece
Ruth Gledhill and Tim Glanfield
The Church of England is facing the loss of as many as one in ten paid clergy [...]
A Legal Shambles….. UK pampers to USA again.
Posted in Asperger Syndrome, Asylum, Autism, Control, Crime, Fear, Injustice, Institution, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Prison, Punishment, Rights, Risk, Technology on Saturday, November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gary McKinnon, Asperger Syndrome, obsession with UFOs, and the wounded pride of Empire
by Jim Gordon
Update, November 28, 2009.
The most recent decision by the Home Secretary to allow the extradition of Gary Mackinnon to the United States is not surprising. The absence of ethical content and responsible moral control in the decisions of the current government, [...]
Dublin Abuse Report and the Catholic Herald
Posted in Crime, Fear, Indecency, Injustice, Institution, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Roman Catholicism, Violence on Friday, November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have posted in various places articles relating to the below disgrace. The article below highlights power and authority, the consequences of such structures and also the refusal to be accountable to anyone other than themselves…..
Dublin Abuse Report and the Catholic Herald
by Augustine of Canterbury Dublin Abuse Report and the Catholic Herald
The report from the [...]
Man crushed to death in bin named
Posted in Disaster, Homeless on Friday, November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mr Tomkins was asphyxiated, a post-mortem examination revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8382857.stm
A homeless man who was crushed to death by a refuse lorry in Manchester has been identified.
Stefan Tomkins, 31, is thought to have climbed into the industrial bin to escape the rain on Tuesday night.
His body was found when the vehicle emptied its load at a rubbish [...]
Advent – Google Wave
Posted in Advent, Google Wave on Friday, November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was very cheeky last week, I asked someone thousands of miles away to send me a Google Wave invite if she had any spare…. and as a good advertisement for Twitter I did the necessary and received an invite which was activated by me very quickly.
Why Google Wave? Well, I have invited some good [...]
Independent research shows ‘faith schools’ promote community cohesion and equality
Posted in Community, Diversity, Education, Faith Schools, Good Theology, Integrity on Friday, November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr11109.html
Secondary schools with a religious foundation contribute significantly and substantially more to the promotion of community cohesion and the provision of equality of opportunity for students than other schools, according to the results of an academic study of recent Ofsted inspection data.
Analysis of the sample of independent inspection reports suggests that secondary-level ‘faith schools’ (of [...]
