April 2012 – Page 3 – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

What does the Resurrection Mean?

By Peter Ould Posted on April 8, 2012 Posted in Easter, Tom Wright No Comments

Remember folks… And for those who like it old stylee…

Stats Watch! 4

By Peter Ould Posted on April 7, 2012 Posted in Sexuality, Statistics 18 Comments Tagged with Aids, Average Age Of Death, Biased Sample, Cause Of Death, Conclusions, Debunking, Denmark, Discrimination, Drs, Gay Mental Health, Health Risk, Homosexuals, Kirk Cameron, Mental Health Issues, Mental Health Problems, Obituaries, Paul Cameron, Random Sample, Tolerance, Upper 70s

You knew that eventually we were going to come back to debunking some of the poor science claimed as “statistics” in the debate over homosexuality didn’t you? Here goes… There is a report up on LifeSite News that claims that …

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Tim Rice, Master Evangelist?

By Peter Ould Posted on April 6, 2012 Posted in Evangelism, Good Friday, Music No Comments Tagged with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christ Jesus, Church Attendance, Crucifixion, Evangelism, Evangelist, Good Friday, Holy Week, Isreal, Jesus Christ Superstar, Judas, Liberal Culture, Mass Communication, Mass Culture, Palm Sunday, Pick Of The Crop, Religious Literacy, Ry Time, Strange Land, Tim Rice

We opened Holy Week with Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice’s Palm Sunday pieces. Now on Good Friday it’s worth returning again to how the pair present the crucifixion and questions around it. If you stop and listen to the questions …

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Deciphering the Cathedral Stats

By Peter Ould Posted on April 3, 2012 Posted in Cathedrals, Church of England, Statistics 4 Comments Tagged with Adult, Adults, Aim, Archbishops Council, Attendance Figures, Attendees, Audience, Cathedra, Cathedrals, Church of England, Decade, Impressive Growth, Intercept, Linear Regression, Linear Regressions, Logistic Regressions, Masks, Regression Results, Statistical Model, Statistics Department

The Church of England’s Research and Statistics Department (OK, technically the Archbishops’ Council’s Research and Statistics Department) has released figures for the past decade or so’s attendances at Cathedrals. The headline figures are encouraging, showing a growth in attendance of …

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Not an April Fool

By Peter Ould Posted on April 1, 2012 Posted in Archbishop of Canterbury, Tom Wright No Comments

One more. Couldn’t resist.

Hosannah?

By Peter Ould Posted on April 1, 2012 Posted in Holy Week, Palm Sunday No Comments Tagged with Celebrations, Two Sides

Two sides to this morning’s celebrations! Ever walked to yourÂ death?

Month: April 2012