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Do something
Posted in life, lifehack on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not knowing the solution: Not knowing the problem
Posted in life, musings on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to make the world/Scotland a better place looks ostensibly straightforward. Find the problem. Work out the solution. Apply.
Of course, life isn’t like that at all, so often we can barely work out what the problem is (sure, lots of people are in fuel poverty, but why are they?), let alone work out the right [...]
Losing Capital
Posted in life on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been interesting watching the flow of capital at my work the last couple of weeks. No money, you’ll understand, but political capital, and also good will capital.
I think good will capital is underrated by a lot of people. It’s your ability to get someone else to do something, and normally relies on people [...]
Paddling
Posted in life, video on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My sister made this video of my brother and I paddling earlier this year (i.e. January 2009)! It made me smile, hope it makes you smile too. Or worry for us!
Death by… Pilates DVD
Posted in life on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a pilates DVD on Friday – if you ask me a fairly modest and measured response to the January blues that seem to be slowly, but very sure darkening my horizions.
I thought, as you might, how hard can it be? Answer. Very. Very hard. After 20 minutes I was ready to stop, my [...]
Levitation
Posted in life, musings on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the weirder things I’ve read today was about scientists’ attempts to make things levitate. Interesting, if you’re interested.
Read more here at Time magazine.
I love it when I hear of things that mean that science is one step closer to making the impossible possible. And such steps are a helpful reminder that any god-of-the-gaps [...]
Empty Promises?
Posted in life, musings on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Something I was thinking about last night triggered me to think about the empty promises Christians make – God’ll work it out, God will rescue you, God will heal you etc. Statements that bare no resembalance to reality for anyone with their eyes open.
There’s some more thought to be put in, but one phrase seemed [...]
The Bible, prostitutes, and government
Posted in life, musings, politics, theology on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After yesterday’s admission that I’d found myself arguing in favour of prostitution at homegroup, I think I should do a bit of explaining.
Why does a repressed theologian find themselves among a group of Christians arguing in favour of something that is so obviously not Christian.
First, a marker. I was making a point about prostitution where [...]
4 chords to sing almost anything
Posted in life, video on January 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Some silly song writing has been going on in my flat this week – I’m sort of hoping it might spur me on to write some less silly songs… Parodies of worship songs are my current basis, not least because you don’t have to know a whole load of chords! This video illustrates well how [...]
The God Who Loves You
Posted in life, ponderings, quotes on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The God Who Loves You – Carl Dennis
It must be troubling for the god who loves you
To ponder how much happier you’d be today
Had you been able to glimpse your many futures.
It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings
Driving home from the office, content with your week—
Three fine houses sold to [...]
