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Lovely menu but I'm not sure that my choices were wise for getting a good sleep!
A moving but scandalous story. Black Gold has extraordinary power. Guardin blog is here and a collection of film reviews.
Any Anglican Episcopal church with an image of The Transfiguration is asked to send a photo (scan) ASAP to the Editor, for use in our magazine.clearly Russell T Davies needs to work something into tonight's programme...
It's really mean when people say that Kats isn't an opera singer, She's made lots of opera albums. I think people ought to get their facts right before making baseless allegations motivated only by jealousy., I didn't spot this, but Kenneth Wood did! The Guardian obviously needs Italian lessons as to the significance of the blog writer - Mrs Senzatalento. If you go to WLKJ you'll see there's a petition for a damehood for KJ - sign now before it is too late!
And, suddenly, David knew that it was his destiny to do this forever: to check the faces of all he came across sprawled along benches, in doorways, on pavements, in gutters, just in case, just on the off-chance that one of them was Merlyn.Heady stuff in that context.
It was not Merlyn Orb.
But David got the money out anyway and placed it in the mittened palm, and closed the fist around it.
Because it was someone.
The early heretics were generally neither knaves nor fools but pious and passionate men, zealous for God, morally serious, scrupulously scriptural. They were very clever, but conventional, fetchers and carriers for the zeitgeist. Heretics like a “wrap”, and heresies are fastidiously neat and tidy, the product of minds stuck inside the box of common sense. “Consistency,” said Oscar Wilde, “is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” Unsurprisingly, then, heresy is aesthetically unattractive, even ugly.I never like my theology neat and tidy <grin>
.. 'many waters cannot quench love' together with 'My Song is Love Unknown' and on the other side of his writing there's the occult reach of Scarlet Ceremonies and Sarnia. Below are pictures of Shipley church and the churchyard looking towards the windmill
Yesterday evening's walk was around the grounds of Peover Hall - my updated album is on the home webserver
Hasty trip up to Newcastle today and that's (the picture) all the Tyne I saw. Train was 30 mins late into York (and then didn't gain any) - I was going to our head office to sort out some computer issues. Turned off Norton (grr) which solved one problem of Vista being unable to see network drives, added 1gig of memory to another machine, fiddled with some printers and then back on the train. Spent most of the time on the train developing software whilst luxuriating in a cd of Joseph Kosma and then in part of Chabrier's L'Etoile - an opera that is not suitable for children, both those links are in French so you'll need to educate yourselves!
with mist and a shaky hand - we risked a walk after a very wet day and were rewarded with wonderful evening lights on this walk - spot Astra Zeneca... Another picture is here maybe some more to come when I chose the least worst ones. I'm putting all the Summer walks photos here on my home webserver.
A recognizably modern Baptist movement developed in the 16th century and was split into two groups. One, the General Baptits, believed that the atonement of Jesus was general for all believers.probably something to do with feeding bread to every bird.
Christianity underpinned so much about his prime ministership, from his 1997 identification of the act of voting Labour with spiritual redemption - "one cross on the ballot paper, one nation was reborn" - to his attempts to persuade the public of absolute truths. The effect could be brilliant. But it produced a strange sort of defiance, especially after Iraq and in the response to terrorism, a leader who came to believe, like Peter Grimes, that he could see the shoals to which the rest of Britain was blind.
A “SHEPHERD” – who had been on a festive day’s drinking binge in Macclesfield with “Jesus”, The Grinch and an elf – hurled racial abuse at an Asian railway porter before violently swinging his crook at him, a court heard.
France provides a corking blockbuster of its own, as Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil duke it out in Heat-like corrupt cop thriller, 36 Quai des Orfèvres.I feel like adapting that description into a conking blockbuster in view of the splendid noses on display, sometimes one got confused as to which villain was getting beaten up but I found it very emotionally involving. Try the review here for a more jaundiced opinion - but maybe i just enjoy soupy melodrama! Another review may have some spoilers for some twists in the early part of the film.
been in the new job for nearly two weeks - as you see it's rather close to the railway! Good job I'm not a trainspotter!
Some months ago, Buckingham Palace gave a magnificent reception for "the music industry", and it took some persuasion to include in this "the music profession", so one begins to understand how far purely commercial values have penetrated.
When Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon, Harrison Birtwistle and I were students in Manchester, we were summoned all together to the Principal's office in college, the day after a Manchester Chamber Concerts Society evening had finished with a very funny Haydn finale. It had been impossible not to smile, and even laugh, discreetly. We were told our behaviour was unforgivable in a serious concert, and that we were a disgrace to the college, and should have more respect for the composer and the string quartet.- though I think I've heard that tale before - but the whole lecture is worth a read - probably preaching to the converted though!
Brady juxtaposes post-revolution, modern Persian art with the inherent homoeroticism present in some classical Persian art. He explains that there is “this love for other men in their culture that is really denied today. Look,” he continues, “you have this in your culture, you should embrace it.”
One of the threads running through his writing is the idea that true religion always leads one to question oneself, rather than make claims over others. Jesus is not a possession or a badge of superiority, but the one before whom you stand, in gentle self-questioning.
It was on the Friday that they ended it all.
Of course,
they didn't do it one by one.
They weren't brave enough.
All the stones at the one time or no stones thrown at all.
They did it in crowds ...
in crowds where you can feel safe
and lose yourself and shout things
you would never shout on your own,
and do things
you would never do
if you felt the camera was watching you.
It was a crowd in the church that did it,
and a crowd in the civil service that did it, and a crowd in the street that did it,
and a crowd on the hill that did it.
And he said nothing.
He took the insults, the bruises,
the spit on the face,
the thongs on the back,
the curses in the ears.
He took the sight of his friends turning away, running away.
And he said nothing.
He let them do their worst
until their worst was done,
as on Friday they ended it all ...
and would have finished themselves had he not cried,
'Father, forgive them ...'
And began the revolution.
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Anglican leaders in Nigeria have been working closely to uphold human-rights issues in the proposed legislation on homosexuality.
He has now added to this a list of 30 other crimes and atrocities that he planned or put into action. It was published by the American government last week. There is nothing quite like this list outside the Moscow show trials that Stalin mounted; and if we accept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession, we owe Stalin's ghost a handsome apology.
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A long stone bench under it [the Loggia di Braccio Fortebraccio] usually supports old men spitting and gossiping, with pigeon droppings all around them
[Georges]finally admits to Anne that he thinks he may know who is sending the tapes, but he refuses to tell her who and his excuses for not doing so are weak. Anne goes into a tailspin and cries onto Pierre's [a male colleague] shoulder about the shaky ground her marriage is on. The tapes keep coming, the subject matter turning darker, and Georges, refusing to accept responsibility for prior actions, repeats the behavior that started the cycle, adding insult upon injury. The final results are shattering and Haneke makes the impact on the audience as shocking as it is upon Georges.
what I would like to tell you is that Haneke is such a crafty guy that, by the time we're pondering that tricky final shot, he has maneuvered us into exactly the same spot Auteuil and Binoche are in. They are so focused on who is sending the tapes that they never do deal with their own lack of generosity and compassion, which is the reason they're in the spot they're in.
In that final shot, we are like them, so obsessed with finding the answer to the who-did-it question that we miss the more important issues. Unlike them, though, we have the ability to distance ourselves from the movie and think about what it's saying, and that's when "Caché" really takes hold. It has the power to keep you up at night not because it's so scary, but because it's so provocative. "Caché" is a movie that could give you thoughtmares.
It is a casual critical truism when talking about voyeurism in the movies - discussing, say, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom - to say that it implicates the viewer. Until now, I have always felt like replying: speak for yourself, mate. Yet this really does implicate you. You feel like you too are participating in this terrible, remorseless destruction.
Caché is Michael Haneke's masterpiece: a compelling politico-psychological essay about the denial and guilt mixed into the foundations of western prosperity, composed and filmed with remarkable technique. It is one of the great films of this decade.
Back from a uk.r.c meet in Chesterfield where we managed a trip up the tower of the church to see the twisted spire. Camera (or the memory card) is still misbehaving but I managed to rescue this one. High Anglican church - something that doesn't exist in this corner of Cheshire with some wonderful stained glass and a Saxon font.Caravaggio’s religious works are greater than William Holman Hunt’s not because he was a firmer believer than the good Englishman but because he was a better painter — and his infamous case is, delightfully, the exception which proves the exception: “God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends his rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew v, 45).
Artistic genius, and our delight in what it produces, is an example of the profligate overflow of God’s grace and goodness, given without limit or condition. In fact, an artist’s complacent confidence that his faith and good behaviour will lend him God’s help in a special way is likely to be the very obstacle which gets in the way of greatness — a log in the artistic eye preventing him from seeing the “world in a grain of sand”.
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Even physically, we play our instruments better when limbs are free and loose, and people regularly report an increase in physical and mental energy when they start to pray or meditate. In addition, prayer can form in us an inner silence which is an essential part of concentration. To be able to hear each note, each bar, each phrase, both individually and as a related whole, requires an ability to see and to hold many parts in unity — a key to any life of contemplation. Avoiding distractions, creating new and better material out of mistakes, balancing self-demand and self-esteem, are all qualities which unite a musical and spiritual life. The hidden, daily annoyances of cancelled flights, noisy hotels, bad food and inferior pianos, are a constant ascetical challenge; and the patience required in the course of a tour to meet, with kindness and attention, hundreds of new people backstage or at receptions is a real call to holiness — much like a priest at the door of his church who tries to greet each person as if they were the most important in the world . . . at least for those few seconds.
Got one of these from Aria today - partially to annoy the cat - but she's taken to it and started picking it up and throwing on the floor by herself which starts it up! The music seems to have stopped working but maybe that's now just as well!
Who is the real criminal? Marmeladov, for abandoning his family? Luzhin for exploiting Dunya? Svidrigailov for murdering his wife? Sonya for prostituting herself? The greedy pawnbroker whom Raskolnikov murdered? Or, to turn the question around: Who among us is not a criminal? Who among us has not attempted to impose his or her will on the natural order? Furthermore, we are made to understand that Raskolnikov's true punishment is not the sentence imposed on him by the court of law, but that imposed on him by his own actions
To a nation bent on violence, anyone who claims to be speaking for God's kingdom and who advocates non-violent means as the way to it is making a very deep and dangerous political statement.
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
- though the above is Dave Walker's - I have to make space for a desktop as well and he doesn't have any space for boxes of audio cd's...
but I must clear up that work area as it is getting on for 1GB of files - I need to dump the not so good ones - don't comment on this!I wonder if somebody could calculate how much money is being spent on these meetings, which deal with one issue and one issue only, when we have 48 million orphans. Whose agenda is this? Definitely, in my view, this is not God’s agenda. Nor is it the average Anglican’s agenda. I interact with people on the ground. They don’t care about the lifestyles of people in America.
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..he was, in theory at least, a research student of the college, working on Aristotelian arithmetic. It is not clear whether the thesis was ever submitted but rumour said it did not extend beyone one side of A4. What is certain is the Fr Felix, though something of a trial to his fellow Dominicans contributed a great deal to enjoyment of life at the Hall....He was the life and soul of a great many parties and his conversation was much enjoyed for its wealth of 1920s slang. In his last years he embarked on a new edition and translation of the Tome of Leo.
Once again there are screams of 'Persecution!'. Let's be clear on this when I get to church to find it has been closed by order of the government. When I am arrested for owning a Bible or taking part in Christian Worship then I will yell persecution.
I will not in response to the SOR because homophobia is not an article of faith. The Nicene creed does not end
"And I reserve the right to call a spade a spade especially if that spade is a screaming bender with no more right to live on God's clean Earth than a weasel"
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Let's also be clear on what the SOR is trying to achieve here. At the moment a woman walks into a print shop to get some cards printed, something like:
"Clair and Amy invite you to a house warming at 24 Croxeth Road, to celebrate our move and our 5th anniversary"
and she can get a call 20 minutes later telling her to "come and take away this filth" because the printers refuse to "do that sort of thing" and she can't do anything about it.
Surely outlawing this is sort of thing is a brilliant thing that Christians should whole heartily applaud. Isn't it? Isn't bigotry horrid? Why aren't Christians celebrating?
A shy entomologist drawn into a torrid lesbian affair following the discovery of a mysterious new species of bug finds herself faced with a startling metamorphosis in May director Lucky McKee's creep-crawly entry into Showtime's terrifying Masters of Horror series. Ida Teeter (Angela Bettis)'s life revolves around bugs, and upon discovering a large, unidentified crawler while simultaneously being drawn into a heated affair with a beautiful young woman named Misty (Erin Brown), the studious wallflower's personal and professional lives begin heating up like never before.
Nothing has a name it can'tthinking about dealing with change. The title of this posting is related to one of her oft quoted poems also from the same collection - Snow Watcher - that I picked up by chance in Saratoga Springs when I was there for work - the full version being:
slip out of. The waterfall is solid ice
by late November; the white pines
vanish under snow that's
blue in the morning, pink in the dusk.
Poetry's not window-cleaning
It breaks the glass
The Nigerian Anglican Church fully intends to attack every denomination in North America. Any church congregation that sees itself as "bible based" that feels its denomination is not "bible based" will be encouraged to leave their denomination and join the Nigerian church, preferably along with their wealth and property.
And guess what aroma gives the Brits the raging horn? Apple cake and custard. There's something quite comforting about that.Now - no doubt - I shall have some checkout operator blogging about the p*rv*rt who bought cooking apples and custard powder (well I didn't quite but you know what I mean) and nothing else! Also on the food theme, thanks to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html for these two - Chocolate Covered SQL - I do read the Daily WTF but hadn't for a few days..and there's this cake, apparently the cake decorators didn't understand Italian, as if that excuses anything, more to the point the company's emailer didn't understand Microsoft HTML extensions - but shouldn't it have treated them as comments?
