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I have two books on the go at the moment. More by Simon Ponsonby and The Prodigal Spirit by Graham Tomlin. The subtitle of More is 'How you can have more of the Spirit when you already have...

I am currently reading 'Otherworld Journeys - accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times' by Carol Zaleski alternating with 'Tom Wright for everyone' by Stephen Kuhrt

OK, let's give this one another go. I have not been to Australia and committing a crime is highly unlikely to help my prospects of getting sent there at this stage. So, based on the many Aussies I...

Being a whinging pom I know what makes us poms happy is when we succeed at beating Australia at sport. Yes, it probably must get boring to hear us banging on about the cricket but hey, we live on a...

When I learned Greek my name got changed around quite a bit. I have answered to kithara (which means guitar) and also kithouli (cabbage) and all the various diminutives such as kithoulaki.

Just started 'Like Father, Like Son' by Tom Smail , subtitled 'The Trinity imaged in our humanity'. If it is any good I may post a review. It only came out this year so it has probably not been...

Well there have now been 11 successive nights of riots and its all across France. This may not amount to a war in any conventional sense but if it does not stop soon it could turn into something...

OK, let's say that it was 1,500 cars this is still not civil war, or race war or any other kind of war. It is social unrest and massive disaffection from mainstream society but not necessarily with...

16 miles from the centre of London, England.

I think we need a sense of perspective here. This is not a European civil war. In the English civil war of the 17th century 10% of the population died. That is war. In the plague of the Middle...

Now you have me thinking. This reminded me of a radio article I head a while back talking about how George Washington was chosen to be President. Apparently there was no free and fair election but...

Has anyone read 'The Shape of the Liturgy' by Dom Gregory Dix? It is still a classic and although it was written 50 years ago it is still one of the most widely cited books on the origins of the...

I agree with you. The source cited is Islamic and therefore has a distinctive perspective on the account. It is a crucial point in the life of Mohammed since it this 'advice' that prompts him to...

I came across this little snippet while thinking about Khadija's cousin Warqa bin Neufel. The account of Warqa's response to Mohammed's first revelation is a crucial turning point in the birth of...

That sounds really interesting. I wonder what sort of church you might run with this kind of training? Could it be a mainstream thing like an Anglican church or a new kind of initiative? We could...

Excellent. There must have been a lot of changes of staff since I was there. For Doctrine it was Colin Gunton , Keith Ward, John Zizioulas etc. Oh and I took some classes with Andrew Walker who...

Well Princeton sounds pretty good to me. How does the system work there? Do you get a choice in who you study under? Yes I would imagine Edinburgh would make sense from a Presbyterian perspective....

I went to Kings College London. Class of '93. It was a pretty interesting mix of students -Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and from different countries too. We got along surprisingly well. The...

I did a Masters in Christian Doctrine - the modern period. Studied all the big guys - Pannenberg, Barth, Moltmann, Rahner etc etc. My thesis was on the relationship between Jesus and the Holy...

I heard an old track on the radio the other week 'My friend the sun' by Family. Since then I have been on a bit of a trip with bands with neckerchiefs - Fairport Convention, Family (and June Tabor). ...

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Ok, you have my attention. Yes I take your point that there is a decline of adherence to churches right across Europe in both countries with official church-state ties (such as UK, Germany) and...

Hmm. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'growing up' in this context. Did you have in mind an intellectual rejection of the claims of Christianity? Or perhaps a move towards a more...

Perhaps the fact that Singapore is a small city state sandwiched between two large muslim nations Malaysia and Indonesia has something to do with it.

OK, here is another angle on this subject. Here in England there was a Reformation but one which left the Church-State relationship pretty much intact. Henry VIII in effect nationalised the Church....

That's the spirit. Maybe we could start by relocating the US Embassy right back to Washington D.C. All they seem to do here is annoy the hell out of the locals and that is surely not what diplomats...

It is interesting what does not make it to the front pages (or on Tweb either). There has been a massive earthquake in Northern Pakistan with thousands dead or missing. This made a 2 inch by 2 inch...

The Search for the Secure Base by Jeremy Holmes (on Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy)

It does make sad reading. Without getting over psychoanalytic about it, it reads just like John Lennon's terrible relationship with his own father, Fred. No real bonding.

They had an item on BBC radio this morning in which a speed reader read the 100 minute Bible in only 7 minutes. She also could recall what she had read and offer an opinion on the translation. I...

Just been listening to BBC Radio talking about the situation in Southern Iraq. Interestingly the Iraqi Minister for Interior is closely associated with one of the Shia militias in Basra, the Prime...

Like many other sensational stories this one has plenty yet to run. The latest update I found is here - www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1574381,00.html

From the current news it would seem...

None of this conflict would have happened if Tony Blair had not signed up to commemorating Holocaust Day five years ago. The British people were not consulted on it and given the pluralist nature of...

As I recall we did have a memorial service a year or two back (as opposed to a monument) and it embraced Armenians and others not just Jews. Some Muslim groups did boycott it, as I recall, and have...

Well thank you for the kind words - and from Scots too, I am very impressed! There used to be a great little cricket club at Balerno does anyone know if it is still going?

Oh and no I shall not...

This may not mean much to most twebbers but it sure does to me. After 18 years England have finally defeated the Old Enemy and won the Test Series against Australia. :lol: :lol: :lol: Freddie...

There are rumours (Clinton for one mentioned it) of some kind of Government review of the whole New Orleans debacle. If so what kind of things should be under scrutiny before another major...

The gas companies are blaming "world markets" for the current hike. However, in France the Government warned gas companies that they may face a windfall tax on excessive profits. Hey presto, the...

This thread is a tad depressing. I currently pay around £1 per litre, so at current exchange rates that is around $1.88 per litre. Oh, and the price of other fuels - such as natural gas has risen...

Thanks for the two cents. As someone living in the UK I think you are dead right that commentators here do not understand the federal system. I am not sure whether folks here have a view one way or...

I was listening to a BBC discussion with various experts who had been involved with other big disasters like the tsunami. One thing that came out of that discussion is that while the Red Cross and...

Hmmm. Sounds a lot like life this side of the pond. I have a new colleague at work who was employed to run a programme aimed at BME (black minority ethnic) and refugee/asylum seekers.

We have...

I'm not sure about this gun thing being a wimpy Brit. A good supply of teabags would definitely be on my list though. You cannot beat a good cup of tea in the event of a disaster. Maybe one of...

Congratulations. Went there myself some years ago and a very fine place it is too. Actually I live a five minute drive from the college and pop into the bookshop on a regular basis. Say hello to...

Well, at today's exchange rate (courtesy of Yahoo) I paid $6.75 for a gallon this week in London. This has not led to the end of life as we know it, yet. We also pay a congestion charge to go into...

Is there a mystery here? Not really. America will have to learn to suck it up like the rest of us. Welcome to the future.:wink:

You pretty much got this right Adam. Just as an aside, it is often overlooked in the West just how deeply Chalcedon divided the Eastern half of Christendom. In some cases such as Egypt, Ethiopia...

Err I guess that is a compliment, so thank you. There have to be some benefits to having grown up in London. Maybe that is it. But my hearing is shot to pieces now I might add.

Ancient stories about catastophe are not limited to the Gilgamesh and Noah's Flood accounts. Another prominent myth that has been receiving a lot of scholarly interest recently is Plato's account of...

I missed seing Pink Floyd on the Dark Side of the Moon tour - parents would not let me go. Tickets were £2.50 (less than five bucks - those were the days.)

Missed Bowie in the 70s, what a pity.
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