Following a failed attempt of mine three years ago some of the lead figures in on-line Peak Oil research and writing have started up a Yahoo Group to explore Peak Oil from a religious perspective. What bliss!
The home page is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peakoilinterfaith/
To subscribe, send an email to peakoilinterfaith-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Interesting and very sharp comment here, about Rowan’s latest missive: “The argument he made (that changes must be grounded in thorough and convincing biblical exegesis and accepted by the Church at large after that has been done) apply as well to the issue of women priests and certainly to women bishops, an issue very current for the Church of England.”
Quite. Either we’re an autonomous church/communion (part of the Church Catholic) or we’re not. Either we have decided that the ordination of women to the priesthood is legitimate, or we have not (leaving aside questions like divorce and the status of the Queen).
The logic of Rowan’s argument is (ultimately) that we should accept papal primacy, because the Roman Church doesn’t recognise us as legitimate.
Bonkers. One thing that has changed in me over the last several years is a realisation that in this sense (and in this sense only) I am a Protestant.
UPDATE: thought this was good (via Tim C).
A teenage boy given the keys to Daddy’s car; not even as good as Desperado. I actually think I could do a better job myself. 3/5
Very silly, but did make me think that I have an alternative career in California.
3/5 (just)
I think I would have loved this if I’d seen it when I was 15 years old. 3/5
Better than I expected; quite good family entertainment. 3/5
Always visually interesting, but not much better than the first. 3.5/5
Some functionality has been restored, in both computer and Rectorial terms. Not sure what’s going to happen on Sunday though…
Today’s link, pursuing the Terry Eagleton/Ditchkins stuff, an interesting interview with him.
A plug for the excellent spotify service. I haven’t bothered to shift all my music files from my back-up back to a PC because I’m using this instead – currently indulging my new romantic nostalgia, tho’ wikipedia doesn’t know what a quiff meant in those days. For a real one see this.
Got up with all sorts of good intentions as I was beginning to feel normal again – even managed to take Ollie for a walk for the first time since Sunday morning – but then discovered that my computer was going wrong, in that I was immediately logged off as soon as I entered Windows XP. I have since spent almost all day trying to fix it, going to the extreme of installing Ubuntu (which, frankly, is easy to put on to the PC and then absolutely awful to try and run anything on, or connect to the internet, so I’m giving up on that idea) only to find, after trying a complete re-install of WinXP that my hard disk is non-functioning. All that the machine can cope with now is Ubuntu run from the CD-Rom.
One bit of good news – I’ve got all my files backed up. What’s going to be a pain is re-establishing all my settings on a new PC. Still, for now I can steal my wife’s as she’s not going to be needing it for a week or two. And I might just be tempted to upgrade my system….
Not a nice way to spend a day (but thanks to PB for some key assistance half way through).