Lunch at ex-offenders’ Skylight cafe

Here is a rare example of criminals being given a chance to make something of life afterwards. An excellent opportunity in all our cities.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article6894119.ece

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Twitter – Convince me please

I decided to see what all the fuss was about regarding Twitter, so I started to give it a go over the last month. So, what do I think?
Essentially it seems to play to the voyeur in people. Initially I thought it was a conversational agenda that was the positive thing, a bit like Messenger [...]

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Spending Christmas without a home

 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7797579.stm
Homeless charities’ Christmas campaigns are under way, amid fears the new year could see homelessness surge as people struggle to keep up with their mortgage payments.
BBC correspondents have been visiting the homeless over the festive period.
JON KAY AT A HOMELESS SHELTER IN BRISTOL
"I can’t believe what a difference this place has made," 23-year-old Neil said, [...]

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Blog Action Day – today!

The last few weeks have been ones of total upheaval. The financial world has finally been found ouT – you cannot give loans to people who cannot afford to pay them back, you cannot give out more than you already have.
Amazingly though, the financIal institutions are going to be propped up by public money – [...]

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Quote of the day……

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography”.

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Salman Rushdie unrepentant about Satanic Verses

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/clive_james/article4856150.ece

Ben Hoyle, Arts Reporter
Watch further highlights of the interview
Twenty years after the publication of the book that almost cost him his life, Sir Salman Rushdie is still glad that he wrote The Satanic Verses.
In the second of a series of interviews with leading cultural figures filmed exclusively for The Times, he tells Clive [...]

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Back to Church Sunday

Mark Waddington obviously has the same concerns re church and why they are getting emptier and emptier. Below are his comments and if you follow the link a video clip.
Maybe the Anglicans will try releasing a new initiative…. the Beta Course for middle classness!!
 
http://markwaddington.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/back-to-church-sunday.html
I received a press release today from the Bishop of Bradford’s office. [...]

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Thou shalt not upload: religious leaders draw up Ten Blogging Commandments

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4833275.ece

Moses never had to deal with IT consultants, of course Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
Church leaders have drawn up a new set of the Ten Commandments aimed at delivering “God bloggers” from the temptations of the blogosphere.
Alarmed by the extent to which religious blogs can descend into vitriol, senior evangelical clergy [...]

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Revealed: Radical cleric Bakri’s pole-dancer daughter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062375/Revealed-Radical-cleric-Bakris-pole-dancer-daughter.html
By Michael Seamark and Emily Andrews
As the daughter of firebrand cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, Yasmin Fostok might be expected to share his fanatical beliefs.
But the radical Muslim’s daughter has ditched his extreme interpretation of Islam  -  as well as most of her clothing.
The busty blonde has been revealed as a topless, tattooed pole dancer.

Raunchy: Radical [...]

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Gospel magazine too risque for rack

Rev. Kimberly Ray never thought she’d be on the cover of a magazine considered too risque for the racks. But this month, Ray , the head of Angie Ray Ministries and Church on the Rock in Matteson, joined four other female pastors on the cover of Gospel Today magazine.
Because the article broke Southern Baptist [...]

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