Phill Sacre

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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.

Latest Posts

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “Lexicon” by Max Barry

    As some of you may know, I’m a fan of the author Max Barry. The first book I read of his was “Company” (it’s his third book, so I was a bit out of sequence); then I read Syrup and Jennifer Government. More recently he wrote Machine Man – all are excellent books and I…

  • DJ Mix Archive

    Some of you may know, I used to (and still do) do a bit of DJing. I used to have a bunch of mixes uploaded when I had my own webspace, however since I switched to using WordPress hosted I’ve not had a central place to host them (I did try SoundCloud, but that has…

  • John 19: Jesus’ Trial and Crucifixion

    As alert readers will no doubt be aware, I have been studying John recently (you can read my previous blog posts on the subject here and here). I promised in my last post that I would blog about John 19, and I thought this would be as good a time as any – particularly while…

  • Quick Life Update

    It’s been a funny old month. Quick a lot seems to have gone on over the past month or so: Phil and I had our 20-week scan. My Mum died, and the funeral was last Friday. On top of all that, I’ve had a ridiculous amount of work to do college-wise. At the moment I’m…