“Pastor” Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church (no, not that one, the other Mars Hill) has commented on his perception of the quality of preaching in the church in the UK. He’s done so in an interview for Christianity magazine conducted by someone from Premier Radio. To help people get up to speed on this, …
Tag Archive: USA
Jan
13
2012
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Nov
09
2010
Bush admits to use of torture
[The Independent: Bush says waterboarding saved UK lives] In an interview on NBC, to promote his memoirs, George W. Bush has admitted to the use of the torture technique known as waterboarding. He asserted that it was not actually torture because, in his words, “a lawyer said so”. Well, Dubya, there are plenty of lawyers …
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Aug
25
2010
Why I feel sorry for Man City and Chelsea fans
I appreciate the title of this post may seem at best ironic, at worst like sour grapes, after the 3-0 drubbing at Eastlands on Monday night but it started swimming around my head before that match had even kicked off. I was listening to the Sunday Roast on BBC Radio 5 Live and on that …
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Jul
27
2010
The Seven Link Challenge
Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …
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Apr
12
2010
The world needs nuclear disarmament
President Obama knows it, even Dmitry Medvedev seems to be on board but Gordon Brown and David Cameron seem to think we’re still in the Cold War. Liberal Democrat Press Release Only the Liberal Democrats are committed to nuclear disarmament. Why is it that in 2010, there are some political leaders still up for a …
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Jan
08
2009
12 days to go…
…until we’re freed from the tyranny of the Bush regime. To mark this occasion, the BBC has compiled a list of the best Bushisms – the ways in which the outgoing moron president has got his tongue in a twist. They range from the simply funny (“at the whim of a hat”) to the startlingly …
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Dec
29
2008
Militants or government?
Israel has been bombarding Gaza for the last three days or so (BBC News report). In the news, it is always being described as targeting the “Militant group Hamas”. Now, imagine for a moment if the BBC and other news outlets were to describe it in a different and entirely accurate manner: Israeli air raids …
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Nov
05
2008
A Seismic Shift
Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler in The West Wing) writes in The Independent today.
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Nov
05
2008
Polls predicted it
The polls – as aggregated and parsed by Electoral-vote.com basically predicted the result state-by-state. Here’s the last set of polls and here’s the currently projected result with MT (43% counted), MO (91%), NC (99%) and IN (97%) still yet to announce. If those four states go as they appear to be so far then the …
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Nov
05
2008
Yes, he can!
338 electoral votes for Obama. He’s picked up CO, NV, VA and FL in addition to the Kerry states. NC and IN look likely to go for him too. The electoral map has been redrawn. The Democrats are likely to end up with 58 Senators a huge majority in the House and one new Governor …
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