According to David N. Livingstone, the historian of science soon discovers that scientific claims… sound universal but turn out to be situated, theories… seem transcendent but are profoundly embodied. At the same time, the plurality of scientific sites bears witness … Continue reading
I like this! Tim LaHaye’s “Bible prophecy” scheme is full-gonzo insane. It’s based on an impossible and immoral reading of disparate scriptures cut-and-pasted into a not-quite coherent timeline of horror upon horror, a timeline that was invented in the 19th … Continue reading
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC correspondent in Tripoli, reported today on the nature of the pro-Gaddafi demonstrations in the capital: In Green Square the evening’s pro-Gaddafi demonstrations were starting. They’re always noisy, but their numbers are not big for a city … Continue reading
A county council has been accused of over-zealousness in implementing CRB (Criminal Records Bureau). Everyone (it seems) who applies for a job with Swale Council in Kent is required to go through CRB disclosure, including “beach cleaners and leisure centre … Continue reading
It’s not often that the Acknowledgements page of a book brings one up short, but the first line of John Kiser’s The Monks of Tibhirine1 had that effect on me: Like Trappist monks, writers do their real work alone, but … Continue reading
On the BBC radio news this morning was reported the outcome of negotiations between the President of the US and the Republican congress about tax cuts. The president was “forced into a climb-down” to allow Bush-era tax cuts for the … Continue reading
… where filmic conventions operate … , we find what is true of many popular films – a consensus that traditional religious faith is deeply untrustworthy and to be placed at the margins of culture if not rejected altogether. Bryan P. … Continue reading
… will the same happen in the parish church?
An interesting passage from the “Sage of Concord” about the whiphand of conformity, and how we have to “act nice”, even if we don’t “feel nice”: Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party … Continue reading
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