Things that may or may not interest you
I haven't written much at LJ recently, and when I have written it is often, as it is today, a pointer to stuff I have written elsewhere. One reason for that is that the other places make it easier to post pictures, though that is not the only reason. Fo here, for anyone who is interested, are some links to stuff I have written otherwhere than here.
- Notes from underground: Bloody Sunday and Oily Tuesday: "Yesterday one of the four remote control thingies for our TV broke and the channel it was on happened to be showing the US Congressional Committee investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico."
- E-mail account hacked | Hayes & Greene family history: "Scammers cracked Val’s Gmail account yesterday, and sent mail to several (possibly all) people in her address book begging for money and saying she was stranded in Scotland."
- Notes from underground: Football fever and winter chills: "Winter arrived today, with snow in several parts of the country. They say it's the first winter World Cup for several years. We watched Italy playing Paraguay last night, in Cape Town, in pouring rain. Cape Town, having a Mediterranean climate, is in the winter rainfall area, so the Italians must have felt right at home. I'm not sure about Paraguay, though"
- Liturgy and life: ancient, medieval and modern | Khanya: "In Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe William Cavanaugh gives an overview of how the reformation debate on the nature of the Eucharistic sacrifice was formed as much politically as theologically."
- Notes from underground: Vuvuzelas take the world by storm: "Thanks to the soccer World Cup, the monotonous droning of vuvuzelas might replace singing at football matches throughout the world. According to this post, more than 1,5 million of the plastic bugles have been sold in Europe."
- The Market as God | Khanya: "I have long maintained that among the “principalities and powers” that Christians are urged to be subject to (Romans 13:1) and to struggle against (Ephesians 6:10-12) are the economic forces that shape our lives. They, like the Sabbath, were made for man, and not man for them. But for many they have become idols, worshipped with religious fervour, and when that happens, capitalism and communism are merely two denominations of the same religion. For the latter the name of the deity is “The Dialectical Forces of History”, while for the former it is “The Market Forces”."