ME19four: life, faith and role-playing games
Thursday, August 16, 2007
The divine solution
Not quite what you might expect, but it tickled me. Advanced maths, popular puzzles and theology lite!
Good for a Friday, any way!
Good for a Friday, any way!
Labels: Life, Recommendations
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 - or "Book burning at Borders, by and by..."
What ho! Shocking news, old boy. That well-known purveyor of fascist propaganda, Borders, is up to it's beastly old tricks again. Peddling offensive literature about those chaps of a different skin colour, what?
Or put it more simply the Campaign for Racial Equality want to stop us reading Tintin!
I should add at this point that I've never been a great fan of Tintin, but this does seem a tad silly. I'm sure I could, as a consenting adult, buy a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - for all I know it's available as a Penguin Classic - or something by David Irving, who was banged up in Austria not so long ago for Holocaust denial. But to complain, when the offending (and offensive?) book has already been moved into the adult section...
Before you know it they'll be goose-stepping down Whitehall and burning Biggles books for being nasty about the Huns and Noddy books for daring to mention Gollywogs!
Except of course that some re-issues in recent years have bowdlerised Biggles and re-cast Imps for Gollywogs in dear old Blyton's writing...
Or put it more simply the Campaign for Racial Equality want to stop us reading Tintin!
I should add at this point that I've never been a great fan of Tintin, but this does seem a tad silly. I'm sure I could, as a consenting adult, buy a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - for all I know it's available as a Penguin Classic - or something by David Irving, who was banged up in Austria not so long ago for Holocaust denial. But to complain, when the offending (and offensive?) book has already been moved into the adult section...
Before you know it they'll be goose-stepping down Whitehall and burning Biggles books for being nasty about the Huns and Noddy books for daring to mention Gollywogs!
Except of course that some re-issues in recent years have bowdlerised Biggles and re-cast Imps for Gollywogs in dear old Blyton's writing...
(And of course I understand the reasoning of the CRE, and have no objections to careful and sensitive revision to books that might, might I hasten to add, mis-shape the young mind, but there do have to be limits. I'm not sure I totally agree with a statement I came across many years ago, but you will guess that I sympathise with it - "All books are books, and therefore sacred." Now I wonder who wrote that?)
Labels: Grumbles, Life, Recommendations
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
10 things pastors long to hear...
Some excellent stuff from St Casserole.
Done for laughs, but as with all humour many a true word is said in jest.
Go read, and don't forget the comments.
On a more serious note: why don't I ever think in these terms? Answer: because I'm burning out and need that change.
Done for laughs, but as with all humour many a true word is said in jest.
Go read, and don't forget the comments.
On a more serious note: why don't I ever think in these terms? Answer: because I'm burning out and need that change.
Labels: Faith, Life, Recommendations
¶ 9:12 am 1 comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Don't just do something, sit there!
Almost in response to my last post, comes this from the CofE website.
And what are we going to do about it? Where can I get several dozen egg-timers from, and more to the point, would I get up to get those who catch the 0530 train to London?
Guilty as charged?
And what are we going to do about it? Where can I get several dozen egg-timers from, and more to the point, would I get up to get those who catch the 0530 train to London?
Guilty as charged?
Labels: Faith, Life, Recommendations
¶ 8:53 am 0 comments
Thursday, May 03, 2007
A (not so) flying visit...
And I complain about cars and lorries stopping outside my house for just a few minutes to look at the map...
Labels: Life, Recommendations
¶ 8:09 pm 0 comments
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Are you with the band?
"a new life emerging" is a blog I don't read often enough. Although I should. There are some wonderful reflections on the grace and power of God as well as the brokenness of humanity.
Are you with the band? is a marvellous piece about Jesus, Judas and ourselves.
Do yourself a favour. Go read!
Are you with the band? is a marvellous piece about Jesus, Judas and ourselves.
Do yourself a favour. Go read!
Labels: Faith, Life, Recommendations
¶ 3:42 pm 0 comments
