How to be: EMO
My friend’s ten year old son has a hair-style that is increasingly becoming a detriment to his ability to exercise any visual cognition – to put it bluntly, he is approaching looking like he is EMO. Or at least that’s …
Category: Identity
Peter Tatchell on Sexual Identity
There’s some brilliant stuff in this Guardian Comment is Free piece by Tatchell. While I don’t agree with his conclusion, his analysis of the current Western social expression of homosexuality is spot on. Like every other expression of human culture, …
More on SOR – How exactly do you define “orientation”?
You can read a copy of the Northern Ireland SOR regulations here and in particular the clauses relating to religious organisations. The issue at hand for myself personally is the protection of the rights of individuals and not just clergy …
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SORry, that’s going too far
There is a huge amount of fuss in the UK papers at the moment about the impending implementation of the new Sexual Orientation Regulations. The regulations, being pushed through to begin in Northern Ireland on the 1st January and at …
Claiming the Kingdom
In case you were interested, below is my sermon from Sunday. Enough of you said it was above acceptable so here it is for all to enjoy. While you’re waiting for it to load you can read Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 …
Anita Cleverly on Ruth and Boaz
Anita Cleverly at St Aldate’s, Oxford, is preaching an absolute blinder of a series on the Book of Ruth. She covers issues of trust in God, the identity of men and women in Christ, the Messianic typology of the book …