Stoning Women and Exonerating Men PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 12:01

Apparently the error lines are tighter for women, they don't have to do much wrong (in comparison to their male counterparts) to earn public hatred. Like a re-enactment of the attempted stoning of the woman caught in adultery, it turns out that the most hated celebrities are female, and their male counterparts receive no such abuse (some of this gets picked up here).

 

Heather Mills

 

Nothing highlights this more than the contrasting fortunes of the Beckhams (we forgive David his philandering but no such mercy is shown to his vocally undergifted wife) and the McCartney-Mills (with the Frog Chorus there is a case for leniency, not so if you pour a jug of water over your husband's lawyer).

What is curious is that there are women in the Bible, particularly in the New Testament whose stories might come close to those of Kerry, Heather, Amy and Victoria. However none of these women receive scriptural criticism. Indeed it is a feature of the New Testament that it nearly always refuses to criticise particular women - Martha is possibly the only exception and even there the situation is complicated.

For more on this check out John Bell here.

 

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Gutsy Granny Ministers To Thief PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:49

Got this story about 92 year old Pauline Jacobi from Ortberg.

 

The connecting point with Matthew 28:16-20 (the text for this Sunday) is "Jesus is here in this car".

Jesus sends us out, and this is difficult, so the last words "and remember I am with you always."

 

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Happiness Can Move Mountains PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 21:18

Bruce Stanley
Bruce Stanley's
seminar on Happiness (download here) contentedly purrs with joyful anecdotes and blissful ideas-

  • That endings are important has been shown by research into Colonoscopies. When the probe was left motionless for the last minute of a colonoscopy, respondents gave a more positive review of the whole experience.
  • Anthony De Mello's "Happiness is uncausable", an insight that enabled Stanley to start to uncover his own pre-existent happiness, rather than attempt to manufacture the sensation by artificial means.
  • We all have a residual passive happiness that is 50% dependent on our genes, 10% dependent on circumstance and 40% dependent on voluntary behaviour.

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MRI Church PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:02

HansOne of the best things about Glasgow Presbytery last night (and it wasn't a bad night thanks also to Martin Johnstone and John Matthews) was Hans Kouwenberg, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

He said that there was no other way for the Church to be, other than a local Church. Even the clerks and convenors (those from the "head shed") had to go to a local Church on a Sunday.

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About Halfway To Heaven PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 09 May 2008 14:19

Feet heaven"Halfway To Heaven" is an experimental collecting place for writings, reviews, quotes and opinion.

It is organised by Neil Glover, the minister of Flemington Hallside Church of Scotland, in Halfway, Lanarkshire.

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