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Just what is a ‘babygrow’, anyway?
As I mentioned a few months ago, Mrs Phil and I are expecting a baby at the end of September. Phil has now finished work (scary!) and so this week we have finally got round to actually thinking about the kind of things we will have to get for the baby, as well as sorting…
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Is Atheism a replacement for Religion?
I don’t know if you’ve seen the latest “storm in a Twitter-cup”, but Richard Dawkins has hit the news once again. You can read more about it here and here. Suffice it to say, he’s not made himself a popular man! Earlier today, I tweeted this: https://twitter.com/phillsacre/status/365807088443736064 This started a Twitter conversation with few people,…
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Sermon: Psalm 1 – The Righteous and the Wicked
Quick post! I was preaching at Christ Chuch Cockfosters this evening on Psalm 1. My sermon has already been uploaded, and you can hear it online on the Christ Church website.
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Weddings (etc): Live Band vs DJ… FIGHT!
Some of you may know, I occasionally do a bit of DJing (at the moment the operative word there is ‘occasionally’, but still). I’ve done a few weddings in the past, as well as other events. I’ve also been a ‘punter’, or guest, at a number of weddings and that kind of thing with DJs…
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Is Secularism ‘neutral’, ‘godless’ – or even possible?
After writing my previous post, I read Gillan’s excellent post over at the God and Politics blog, which I do commend to you. At the bottom of the article, he linked through to an article on the Theos Think Tank website, written by a Christian barrister, entitled “Is Secular Law possible?” I would encourage anyone…
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The Church is wiser than our secular society
One of the articles that seems to have been doing the rounds on Twitter lately is “Our secular society is wiser than the Church” by Oliver Kamm (most recently I saw it tweeted by my friend @pandammonium). I often read articles online without responding to them, but sometimes one annoys me sufficiently that I feel…
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Review: The World’s End
I’m just going to come right out and say it up front: I was a bit disappointed by the World’s End. Let me explain. I’ve been a fan of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright since Spaced – it’s probably my all-time favourite sitcom. I loved both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – in particular,…
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Sermon: Resurrection [1 Corinthians 15:12-28]
As I mentioned a while back, I was preaching a few weeks ago at Christ Church Cockfosters. We were going through a series on the Nicene Creed, and my particular line was “On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures”, i.e. Jesus’ resurrection. I didn’t really cover the ‘in accordance with the…
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Richard Dawkins on the ethics of Stuart Broad
If you haven’t been following the Ashes over the past few days, you may not have heard about the mini furore created by Stuart Broad last week. Broad is a batsman for England who was caught out fairly and squarely, but refused to ‘walk’, leaving the decision down to the umpire. There has been a…