There’s a good article on Debt over at threads, and how our culture encourages us to be far too casual about something that makes us slaves: The banks and credit card companies tell us that this kind of debt is good. It’s a way of bringing forward tomorrow’s spending to today. It gives you choices […]
Damien Walter has written a really interesting article on Does Fantasy Offer Escapism or Escape? It’s a perennial question, but one that’s worth revisiting and he’s got some interesting stuff to say. Here’s an extract, but be sure to read the whole thing… The only people who hate escapism are jailers, said the essayist and Narnia […]
I’ve now been living in London for exactly a month! I’m starting writing this blog post on the London Underground, just coming in to Edgware Road on the Hammersmith and City line. I’m on my way back from work, so it’s pretty busy right now but I’ve managed to grab a seat and start tapping […]
The last few weeks have been crazy, and the last few days crazier still. After eight and a half years of living in Cardiff, I’ve just this weekend upped sticks and moved to London. Mad, right? But more on that in another blog post. What I really want to talk about now is the reason […]
I’m a big fan of The West Wing, and this was rather like a period version of Aaron Sorkin’s political drama. In many ways, that’s high praise, but there’s something rather small-screen about this film. My friend James argued that it never quite shakes the feeling of being a glorified TV movie, and it’s certainly […]
At the start of this month, I browsed through IMDB making note of the various films that I’d like to see this year. There were enough of them for me to feel it was worth treating myself to a Cineworld Unlimited card. It allows me to see as many films as I like for a […]
Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler by Frank McDonough My rating: 4 of 5 stars I recently finished this moving account of the life of Sophie Scholl, a German student who bravely resisted the Nazis. The book does a good job of telling the story of Sophie’s life and the […]
At the moment, Evangelical Alliance Wales are consulting Christians on a wide number of issues to put together a “Manifesto for Wales”, a positive Christian vision for society. This is a great idea – Christian political engagement is often very reactive, simply trying to stem the tide on the secularisation of our society, rather than […]
Some late night musings on a classic philosophical question, given a new spin by quantum physics… Can something come from nothing? In a vacuum, quantum fluctuations mean that energetic particles appear and disappear from nothing. Some atheists argue that this means we don’t need God to explain why the universe exists. But even a vacuum […]
American philosopher, debater and Christian apologist William Lane Craig has been getting attention for Richard Dawkins‘ refusal to debate him. Craig’s Oxford debate has been publicised with a bus campaign stating ‘There’s probably no Dawkins‘. It’s a funny and clever riff on the atheist bus campaign, and good publicity for William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith debate tour. Dawkins is […]
