Some things I’ve found interesting on the web in the last 24 hours:
An interview with Michael Ruppert
Lessons from the Edge (which I identify with)
On priesthood in the NT
The case for deflation (with some stunning graphs)
That U2 concert (h/t DMK)
The exorcist, secularisation and folk piety
Category Archives: TBTM
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Some things I’ve found interesting on the web in the last 24 hours:
An interview with Michael Ruppert
Lessons from the Edge (which I identify with)
On priesthood in the NT
The case for deflation (with some stunning graphs)
That U2 concert (h/t DMK)
The exorcist, secularisation and folk piety
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Word count: only about 700 more than it was last time I said (end of last week)! The sabbatical is starting to take effect; I’m beginning to relax more fundamentally than I have in many years; and right now I don’t think trying to “achieve” the book is what God wants me to do – so I’m spending a lot of time just fiddling, watching TV, reading books (for myself and to the kids) playing Bejeweled Blitz(!) and stuff like that. I’m sure I’ll come back to hard work before too long but for now, this seems like the right and holy course. It means I can write a bit more on the blog as well, which is fun 🙂
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A weather forecast, for bls.
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Today’s link: Neil Gaiman and the power of story-telling. I still think that the Sandman sequence says all that needs to be said about answering post-modernity.
Word count: 7,700 which is half way through chapter 2 (each chapter will end up being around 5,000 words each).
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Word count: 0
Actually, that’s not the whole truth. Transcripts currently amount to a word count of 79,542, and the draft that I’m presently working on has a count of 7643.
But I’m really now starting from scratch. I expect to end up – God willing – by mid-December with a polished word count of about 65,000.
A summary of the book can be found here.
TBTM20090924
Ten days into the sabbatical and today is the first day that I woke up NOT thinking about work problems. Of course, as soon as I realised, I started to think about them once again. Progress, nonetheless.
Today’s link: Violence, Tarantino and the Basterds, a Christian perspective. I’m wondering if I was too harsh in my initial thoughts; should probably have given it at least a 4. I’ll have to see it again, now that I’ve read lots of reviews.
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Been away from home for a break which was very good; first at a conference (which I’ll blog about another time) then with friends in London.
I have rediscovered the art of the lie-in!
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Christians in China number over 50 million on the most conservative of assumptions. The true figure is probably at least twice that much. It is quite possible that more people attend church in China on a given Sunday than in all of so-called “Christian Europe.
Find this and lots of other fascinating facts over at John’s place.