UPDATED 9 APRIL – please scroll down for update On Thursday, April 4, three options were unveiled for the quake-damaged cathedral in the centre of Christchurch. These are termed 1) Restore; 2) Traditional; 3) Contemporary. They are the result of conversations and an international Study Tour. While the look of the three is different, essentially
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I have been reading Damian Thompson’s book The Fix (“How addiction is taking over your world”). Thompson includes addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol, computer games, and sex. He is arguing what I suspect many of us intuitively know – a lot of contemporary products, and the way we encounter them, are specifically designed to
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I have seen the image (left) more than once on facebook. It is, of course, absolute nonsense – misinformation from The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official) [sic] facebook page. It has had 68,834 shares by people who uncritically follow a page that describes its mission as, “to support…critical thinking and evidence-based understanding…”
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Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. Easter begins in the evening with the Easter Vigil and is celebrated for fifty days as one long festival. It is not one day. It is not 40 days. Easter is a seventh of the
On the feast day of St Melito of Sardis (April 1) Pope Francis made a surprise visit to the little-known Vatican parish church dedicated to the saint. Ever the contemporary pope, in his off-the-cuff remarks Pope Francis mentioned he had been skyping the new Archbishop of Canterbury, and gave hints that since there has been
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