Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 28 Feb 2009
If anyone doubts the awesome power of Thinking Anglicans, then just look what happens to modest little one-man blog operations following a mention in Thinking Anglicans:
Ozymandias, thy name is Sarmiento!
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 28 Feb 2009
It has to be Pasadena…
My favourite American institute of higher education?
It has to be Caltech…
Why?
Because last night, following my appearance on Thinking Anglicans, someone with an IP address belonging to Caltech (yes, you know who you are, DHCP-64-192.gps.caltech.edu!), spent 2 hours 22 mins 25 secs working his/her/their way through the Kill George series on this blog.
Not even my mother has devoted 2 hours 22 mins 25 secs to my writing. Ever. In the whole of my life. Combined!
Thank you, whoever is behind DHCP-64-192.gps.caltech.edu (may I call you DHCP?). I appreciate your interest, and I hope you were sufficiently rewarded for your efforts
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 27 Feb 2009
Today, 27 February, is, of course, the feast day of George Herbert, priest, poet, who died this day in 1633.
King of glory, King of peace,
who called your servant George Herbert
from the pursuit of worldly honours
to be a priest in the temple of his God and King:
grant us also the grace to offer ourselves
with singleness of heart in humble obedience to your service;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
God give him grace to rest in peace, and rise in glory…
(and may his false memory stop bugging those of us who are left to follow in his footsteps!)
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 27 Feb 2009
I accept responsibility for that which I was responsible for, and recognise that my actions must be consistent with this.1
Hmm…
To which… I’ll see you one self-righteousness and raise you Matthew 23:16-22
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 25 Feb 2009
Although Circles of Thorns was not written as a Lent book, it has ended up being published as the Mowbrays Lent book for 2009, and the five “circles” of the book’s examination of Christ Mocked by Hieronymus Bosch can be easily applied to the five weeks of Lent.
In case there is anyone who is interested in keeping the “observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy word” (in the words of the Ash Wednesday service of the Church of England), and would like to do so using the structure of Circles of Thorns, I will attach a series of thoughts, readings, meditations and questions. A new set will appear each Wednesday in Lent.
A PDF can also be downloaded for easier printing and later reference. Podcasts (audio files) of the Sunday evening sermons and the Tuesday lunchtime Lent lectures will also appear the day (DV) after delivery.
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 22 Feb 2009
Joe Queenan on the French:
They’re rude, they’re haughty, they talk too much about movies, they think they’re better than everyone else. That is, in fact, the way I try to live my life.
Yep. Seems like a life-philosophy to me!
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 21 Feb 2009
Ronald Reagan said that “A recession is when your neighbour loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.” The reasons why you are losing your job, or your neighbour is losing his, are never as easy to understand as Reagan’s knockabout political abuse seems to pretend.
Why are we mired in such financial and economic turmoil?
In the UK we are fortunate to have Evan Davis and Robert Peston to explain the ins and outs of the credit crunch to us. In the Church of England we have been fortunate to have Andreas Whittam Smith, First Church Estates Commissioner, explain the ins and outs of the credit crunch to the General Synod. Exemplary as all these explanations are and have been, I have yet to come across anything so elegant, so simple and so terrifying as Jonathan Jarvis’s The Crisis of Credit Visualized:
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 17 Feb 2009
What happens when the laws of notoriety clash with the terminal illness of a young woman? We see the way in which we live in a potemkin society.
UPDATE: Jade Goody’s publicist, Max Clifford, has announced that she will not “die on camera” : “She wants to do maybe a one-off with Piers [Morgan] for ITV. There might be one or two other things and some charity work. But no more: reality TV can only take so much reality.”
Which really says it all…
Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 11 Feb 2009
Atheists are self-invited guests at the dinner table, and the only reason they don’t realise it is because they don’t know history.
