Thinking of Matthew 20: 1-16, dissonant bible asks Who’s left in the marketplace at the end of the day?

You’ll have read that Bene D. isn’t feeling very grand. I’m a poor substitute I know, but working on the theory that something is better than nothing I thought I’d do a guest post or two until our regular host gets back some vim. And I’m going to do it without ever once mentioning my [...]

I was fine yesterday.
I was fine last evening.
By morning I wasn’t fine.
I have very patient and fun family and friends, I know how far I can push the “I’m fine” rountine. This time, I knew not too far. This was mean, hit hard and fast. Not a flu/cold thing, a pneumonia thing.
I’ll hang out when [...]

This BBC piece looks at church marketing.
At the moment my response is arrrrrggggghhhh!
CAN already has it’s Christmas campaign out.
I’m with Simon Jenkins on this.
“We collect them partly out of mischief,” says Jenkins, “but also to encourage churches to stop making an ass of themselves.”
It’s a good piece with an interesting response.
CAN insists the advertising makes [...]

The 10 Stupidest Utopias by Jeremy Smith
via Jordon Cooper

On August 7th I posted about the 10 days of floods and monsoons that hit parts of India, and how people began to use technology to reach out to help. The extent of the devestation was immense.
The disaster killed 1,050 people, who were drowned or buried in landslides. Another 224 so far have succumbed to [...]

About a month ago, without realizing what I was doing, I pulled out the vacuum cleaner and sucked up some sand that my two daughters brought in with them.
After the floor was clean, I filled up the kitchen sink and did the dishes.
After the kitchen became its shiny best, I did the same thing to [...]

In 1911 German sociologist Robert Michels wrote a book - On the Sociology of Political Parties in Modern Democracies that is no longer in print. Tech Central Station writer Lee Harris looks at the central premise of oligarchy and why we may find thinking about this uncomfortable.
There are several reason for the inevitability of [...]