RIP Frank Field. A politician in a different league to almost all others. A truly great man of our times. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

It's arrived!

Today is the birthday (and death day) of William Shakespeare. This short thread serves as a reflection on the passage of time, love, beauty, mortality and the meaning of life 🧵

1. Dame Judi Dench, Sonnet 29

For an alternative view on government support for media in challenging times … Philip Matthews Liam P. Hehir

If our spiritual responsibility is to love our neighbour, isn’t that responsibility extended to exercising our vote in a democracy as a means to support loving terms of life in society?

Got a tip-off on this from Michael F. Bird and finally got my hands on a copy while at Ridley College . Wow! Compulsory reading for any scholar or scholarship-curious evangelicals. Sobering stuff.

#Kant300
Ex-Marxist S. Bulgakov's coming out as a Christian in 1902 sounded like this:
'The basic idea of Christianity is the ethical equivalence of all human beings, an idea formulated as the equality of all before God. It is not the mechanical equation of rights and duties, ..

Brilliant. Amazing picture capturing the sentiments of a billion people at a moment in time…

time.com/6969273/russia…

Hadn't realised how long drones with cameras have been around.

The new Catholic cathedral in Christchurch will be built on the Barbadoes Street site of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament destroyed in the 2011 earthquake, Bishop Michael Gielen has announced. Details here: catholic.org.nz/news/media-rel…

Crusaders not yet the force they once were. Why????

Religious faith is ‘the most enduring, deep-rooted, universal form of popular culture that history has ever witnessed, yet you won’t find it on a single cultural studies course from Sydney to San Diego.’
Terry Eagleton winter lecture

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Have started reading M Robinson’s Reading Genesis: brilliant. Could also be called Finding Grace in Genesis. But this review newyorker.com/magazine/2024/… damns the book. God is more capricious than gracious. Food for thought once the ram in the thicket is roasted.

There is a lot to ponder here for all Christians in the West …

Christiam Tweet of the Week!

If we’re not talking about the feet of Jesus in ancient times and English pastures green, then n.wives.597=wasted argument time :) Rev. Bosco Peters

Where might NZ fit in these figures? Michael Reddell