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That's not funny....
As someone who often sees the humour in a situation, I always feel uncomfortable with the caricature of Christians as being humourless. And I admit that I haven't listened to the radio show in question. However, I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with the leader in Tuesday's Times entitled "A Sorry...
Alan White Posted: 29 October 2008 No comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
There's Probably No God...
"There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."Various thoughts raced through my mind when I first heard about the British Humanist Association's advertising slogan that is to appear on the side of bendy-buses in London.First: some comfort that will provide for all those city traders...
John Hayward Posted: 21 October 2008 6 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion,
Betting on the Future
"Gambling addicts soar by 25% under Labour's lax laws""The number of people with gambling problems has risen by 25 per cent since Labour relaxed the gambling laws"These are just a couple of the headlines in yesterday's papers, prompted by the publication of the gambling addiction charity Gamcare's annual...
John Hayward Posted: 17 October 2008 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Lifestyle Issues,
Britain Needs a New Sexual Revolution?
Last night I opened the opposition for the Cambridge Union Society's freshers' debate, which called for a new sexual revolution.It proved a rather confused affair in that, despite clear differences in the worldviews of the speakers on both sides of the debate, there was considerable overlap in some of...
John Hayward Posted: 10 October 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
The Value of Life
Looking beyond the economic crisis and political conferences, this week's news makes for dismal reading. Early on Sunday, following an evening out with friends and family, 45-year-old Frank McGarahan sought to stop a group of men attacking a homeless Lithuanian man and his girlfriend in Norwich, but...
John Hayward Posted: 2 October 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues,
Archbishops' City Attacks
Wednesday night the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned the world's stock market traders as bank robbers and asset strippers. While we might want to question the practice of short-selling, it seems a bit much to accuse of wrong-doing people who have broken no laws and who have simply been doing...
John Hayward Posted: 26 September 2008 3 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Lehman Brothers a 'victim'?
On the BBC News website there are currently two (and certainly many more) examples of how the financial markets crisis is being reported.The one approach is exemplified by this reporting: "Lehman .. is the latest victim of the global credit crunch." The monolithic entity 'Lehman' is a victim of this...
Alan White Posted: 17 September 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Creationism Confusion
Despite coverage on four pages of today's Times (two paragraphs on the front page, the leader on p.2, the whole of p.3, and opinion piece opposite the letters), I was left wondering what it was that the Royal Society's Director of Education, Professor Michael Reiss, had in fact said about creationism.
John Hayward Posted: 12 September 2008 7 comments
Keywords: Science & Technology,
The Next Generation
"Economic and academic concerns trump relational ones, despite the latter's crucial role in child, and later adult's, well-being. Children's policy misses the importance of relationships and political thinking in general misses the relevance of high levels of relational stress and relational poverty...
John Hayward Posted: 11 September 2008 No comments
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
What the media doesn't tell us
"[Wednesday] was Sarah Palin’s night. But what prepared her to be believable was the speech of Linda Lingle, the Governor of Hawaii." My experience of attending political party conferences is that the media consistently presents its own distorted version of events, so that people seeing...
John Hayward Posted: 5 September 2008 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Richard Gunton on 5 May 2013
I found this a really stimulating talk - an excellent start to the afternoon. It went by so fast (or...
ps Yembe Mpeng Jacob on 18 Apr 2013
Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...
Bob Simpson on 26 Mar 2013
Yes Harry, we are. But we seem to be talking about it in a context that is thousands of years apart,...