Category Postcards from Palookaville

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Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

The schedule for the Gospel Coalition’s biennial conference this spring is now available.  The line-up makes for interesting reading and it is definitely good to see that the question of Adam and Eve’s historicity will be addressed.  It is one…

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Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

The schedule for the Gospel Coalition’s biennial conference this spring is now available.  The line-up makes for interesting reading and it is definitely good to see that the question of Adam and Eve’s historicity will be addressed.  It is one…

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The Body Politics

It seems it might be helpful to clarify my earlier reference to preachers merely setting up virtual equivalents of themselves to carry the church into the indefinite future. Nobody, as far as I know, has yet made the suggestion –…

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The Body Politics

It seems it might be helpful to clarify my earlier reference to preachers merely setting up virtual equivalents of themselves to carry the church into the indefinite future. Nobody, as far as I know, has yet made the suggestion –…

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From High Priest to Heretic

Here is a fascinating interview with Jaron Lanier, web-insider who is now doing the Winston Smith thing. I was particularly impressed by this paragraph: Lanier has another problem with the techno-utopians, though. It’s not just that they’ve crashed the economy,…

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From High Priest to Heretic

Here is a fascinating interview with Jaron Lanier, web-insider who is now doing the Winston Smith thing. I was particularly impressed by this paragraph: Lanier has another problem with the techno-utopians, though. It’s not just that they’ve crashed the economy,…

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Make Mine a Double!

It was good to be a middle aged has-been (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘never-was’) this Christmas.  While I poured myself a brandy and listened at leisure to the long-awaited Celebration Day and Mark Knopfler’s new album, Privateering, I took some…

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Make Mine a Double!

It was good to be a middle aged has-been (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘never-was’) this Christmas.  While I poured myself a brandy and listened at leisure to the long-awaited Celebration Day and Mark Knopfler’s new album, Privateering, I took some…