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Archive for July 18th, 2008

Lambeth leadership

The bishops are “in retreat”and the Archbishop is acting as their retreat speaker, guiding them back to God, Jesus, and their episcopal calling and the Church’s. Where’s the smiting and excommunication? Call that Christian leadership?

The sexual innocence of Michael Bird

Michael expresses his surprise at a Sydney Morning Herald article on Christian Sex Guides. I’m not quite sure why, since evangelical Christians (the only sort who would buy a separate “Christian” guide) seem to me to have bought fully into a late modern Western hedonistic relational pleasure-giving-and-receiving understanding of sex as a necessary means of [...]

Texts of Queer Terror (1)

(Note: this is the second in a series, following this post. The same requests for courtesy and careful argument apply.)
There is a whole range of texts which we ought to discuss with special care, that include those that have been used to justify or inspire violence against women, against Jews, against children and against gay [...]

Songs of an unsung hero

If you are remotely interested in Dr Who, sound effects, dance or electronica, then check out this “illustrated” (I have no idea what the equivalent word should be for aural examples) story about Delia Derbyshire’s work for the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in the 1960s.

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