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Nov 2007
21

Data Loss

Ministers under fire over records On Tuesday the chancellor told MPs how the entire child benefit database was sent by a junior official from HMRC in Washington, Tyne and Wear, to the audit office in ..

Nov 2007
19

‘One single being’?

God is not just one single being. He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit: he is Trinity, he is community. And so therefore God is mutual love. Graham Tomlin, The Praise of Creation , Holy Trinity Brompton,..

Nov 2007
10

Passing Judgement

At the sermon I heard on Sunday the preacher told a story which effectively made two points: we should derive our sense of self-worth from the fact that God loves us, not from what other people think ..

Nov 2007
10

Barth on the Trinity

Barth, subtle as always: All theological favouritisms are... forbidden: the one-sided belief in God the Father which was customary in the Enlightenment; the so-called Christocentrism which Pietism lov..

Nov 2007
8

Bugs

One of the most frustrating things when programming in any language, is bugs. Not bugs caused by your own coding (although they can be annoying) but bugs caused by the language itself not working prop..
Category Culture
Tags bugs php

Nov 2007
7

Insanity

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. Philip K. Dick

Nov 2007
6

jQuery UI

My favourite javascript framework, jQuery , has recently released jQuery UI , a set of user interface javascript components. These can be used for displaying websites, having sliding menus, sortable t..

Nov 2007
4

Madness and Method

He may be mad, but there’s method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical. GK Chesterton

Nov 2007
4

Abortion Legislation

In the 40 years since abortion has been legal in Britain, the number of terminations taking place each year has increased from 22,000 to almost 200,000. Anti-abortion groups stage rally Since 1967 the..

Nov 2007
2

Barth on Liturgy and the Apostolic Succession

I’m currently reading a lot of Barth. Expect more quotations to come! It is a strange thing that when there are revisions of books of order and hymn-books in the Evangelical churches every possible au..