Parody and Preaching

I have two links to share, both from the Burnside Writers Collective.
The first is just brilliant parody:
God Wants You to Read This Article
The second is more thought provoking, about the value of sermons as the primary teaching tool in modern Christianity. Don’t let the title put you off reading, it’s genuinely thoughtful.
Why I Hate [...]

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Alcohol on Aeroplanes

I spotted this news story on the BBC website today.
I had a brief conversation on this topic after a flight to Ibiza, where the guys behind us were getting stuck into cans of Carlsberg Extra the flight attendants had sold them. They were becoming quite annoying by the end of the journey, but the general [...]

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Weak-willed women

Sitting in “a church” yesterday, I waited to hear how the pastor would interpret 2 Timothy 3.6, which talks about unwholesome folk who “worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women”. With the friend to my left being an incredibly intelligent and fiercely feminist young woman (and yet somehow a Christian), and [...]

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“I thought I was fit”, he said, coughing up a lung.

I played my first game of competitive football in about 2 years this evening, was just 6-a-side on a caged astro pitch with 3′x8′ goals, but it was great to get a bit of sport in. It helped that we won; I may have been the least useful to the team, but I enjoyed it, [...]

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Ibiza revisited

I think I’d quite like to write a travel blog. The snag is that I don’t really travel, in fact, I’ve never left Europe. So since I’m just back from Ibiza, I should blog about it, and make the most of it.
Ibiza is synonymous with revelry, drunkenness, drugs and sex. What better place to go [...]

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