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We're currently doing a series on Sunday evenings about the Seven Deadly Sins. The other week, I spoke on anger.

( Notes for my sermon: Anger )

ajmnewma and I led the service at church last night. Behind the cut is a record of what we did. I found that as I was preaching my (short) sermon I kept noticing how badly structured it was and how many points I probably could have made better, so I crave your pardon for the scrappy bits of that - I have resisted the temptation to rewrite the whole thing ( Read more... )

Please read this and sign this to campaign for an end to nuclear weaponry.

I've not written much for a long time now. I seem not to have very much of interest to say - or lack the means, time or inclination to put my nebulous thoughts into words. So I thought I'd just share a few blog posts that have provoked thoughts in the last couple of days. Please note this is one of my public posts, so you might want to bear that ( Read more... )

"We live in a world that's broken in the sense that a very large part of our world, notably, Africa, feels, with a good deal of justification, that the rest of the world has more or less stopped thinking about it, in terms of positive investment. In a sense that is brokenness where one sector of the human family says, we don't believe that the rest ( Read more... )

As the Chilcott Inquiry into the Iraq Invasion continues, Alastair Campbell has made some interesting comments about the Bible. Church Mouse adds some thoughts on the matter.

HT: Maggi.

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This was the scene from my bedroom window this morning:


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