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Quick Review: Samsung Galaxy S Advance
On Friday I arrived back home to find my new phone had been delivered (well, it had been delivered next door and I had to pick it up, but still.): a Samsung Galaxy S Advance. This is to replace my HTC Wildfire, which I’ve had for the past couple of years. I bought it on…
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Placements and Holiday
I’ve been a bit lax about updating over the past few weeks! This is just a quick update to let you know what’s been going on: Two-week parish placement in Colchester (at St Andrew’s Greenstead). Very much enjoyed it, and I will hopefully write some more detailed reflections about that at some point. During the…
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Bigoted, Homophobic… and proud?!
Thought that title would catch your attention! One thing which annoys me about the whole furore surrounding the government’s proposals to redefine marriage (which I’ve blogged about before) is the careless way people use words like ‘bigoted’ and ‘homophobic’. Particularly the first one: these days, if you are opposed to anything which society in general…
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Reflections on a year of theological college
Well, I’ve done it. I’ve completed a year of tuition at Oak Hill. Unless I have to do any retakes, academically this year is over for me. “For me, ze year is over…” It’s gone scarily quickly, and I can’t quite believe we’ve reached this point. It feels like hardly any time is past since…
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I’ve got this mole, you know…
… it’s making a hell of a mess of my garden!* So starts Jasper Carrott’s “The Mole” routine – to my mind one of the best starts to any comedy routine ever. Well, I actually do have a mole, but not the kind that digs in your garden: it’s the skin kind. It’s on my…
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1 Timothy 2: An alternative reading?
In my previous post on 1 Timothy 2 and the created order, I questioned the view that Paul’s prohibition of women exercising authority in church is grounded in the created order. In this post, I’d like to examine an alternative view, one which I think makes more sense to me. I don’t pretend that this…
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That’s a wrap, people.
That’s right, a whole year has now been and gone. An academic year, that is – this time last year I still had an actual proper job (which just highlights the amount of difference 12 months can make!) We moved down here last August, so by my reckoning we’ve been here about ten months. Not…
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Nearly There…
You wait ages for a blog post to come along, and then two come along at once! Sorry about that – things have been a bit busy recently, as I’m sure you can appreciate. Term is very nearly over, we have just over a week left (eek!) and then a week of exams (eeeeeeeek!!!). *ahem*…
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Sermon: 2 Thessalonians 1 – Persecution and God’s righteous judgement
This morning I preached a sermon on 2 Thessalonians 1. At college this term I’ve been learning about Homiletics, and as part of the assessment for that I had to deliver a sermon – which involved doing lots of diagrams as part of the preparation process (it’s Chris Green’s 12-step process for doing sermons). To…
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God’s Image and Women Bishops
A few days ago I had a leaflet in my pigeon-hole at college entitled “Male & Female in God’s Image“. It was published by Reform, and (strangely enough) written by my placement supervisor. (He didn’t specifically give it to me, by the way; it was given to all students at Oak Hill). The main claim…