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Twenty Questions to a Fellow Blogger
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to respond to "Twenty Questions to a Fellow Blogger", In a spare moment last week, I did so, which Paul Burgin has now posted on his blog. Here's what I told him:What made you decide to start blogging?I have always responded to the news by informing the television...
John Hayward Posted: 10 March 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
`Diversity` Threat Spreads
The General Teaching Council for England is developing a new code of conduct for teachers that threatens to prevent teachers from talking about their faith and could be used to compel teachers to promote viewpoints with which they disagree.The GTCE is currently conducting a public consultation on a draft...
John Hayward Posted: 17 February 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Education, Worldviews & Culture,
Twitter: perhaps a comment on society?
Twitter's website says that it's 'a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?' The video on the website (twitter.com) gives the example of a lady finding out about the daily...
Alan White Posted: 16 February 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Science & Technology, Worldviews & Culture,
A World Gone Mad?
Why has the BBC sacked Carol Thatcher, apparently for comparing in private someone's hairstyle to that of a gollywog, when it continues to pay the likes of Jonathan Ross a fortune for being consistently disrepectful and offensive each week?Why has North Somerset Primary Care Trust suspended a nurse for...
John Hayward Posted: 4 February 2009 4 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
Human Rights - A Christian Conception?
"The origin of human rights is creation. Man has never 'acquired' them. Nor has any government or other authority conferred them. Man has had them from the beginning. He received them with his life from the hand of his Maker. They are inherent in his creation. They have been bestowed on him by his Creator."...
John Hayward Posted: 10 December 2008 5 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
Are Human Rights really Universal?
As the world marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10th, how is it that an increasing obsession with rights has seen an apparently similar increasing abuse of those rights?From the corridors of power (most recently, the Damian Green affair) to...
John Hayward Posted: 9 December 2008 3 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
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,
'Blasphemous' Jesus Statue
"I think of art, at its most significant, as…a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."The first of our two Cambridge Papers on art (A window upon the world and The window is closed) began with the above quotation by the...
John Hayward Posted: 3 September 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
Pride Before A Fall?
"We want to encourage competitive sports in schools, not the 'medals for all' culture we have seen in previous years. In sport you get better by challenging yourself against other people. A lot of sports are team games where people have to work together but they play against other teams."Yesterday's...
John Hayward Posted: 26 August 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Education, Worldviews & Culture,
Equal Rights, Equal Roles?
The chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, wants to launch a "new assault" on inequality. Last week the commission claimed that the extension of maternity leave and the right to flexible working may have “entrenched the stereotype” of women as the primary care-givers.It...
John Hayward Posted: 22 July 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
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