Archive for February, 2007

A cultural catholic

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

An interesting article this morning, if only because it shares some of my own feelings. Catherine Deveny says:
I don’t believe in God any more. I’m a cultural Catholic. I couldn’t swear on the Bible, I’d have to take an oath on New Scientist.
You may laugh, and I wouldn’t blame you, but my faith was […]

The lost W

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Great new theory on the two source synoptic problem which does away with all of those questions about Q. Hat tip to connexions.
Last year, we did Mark for Lent on signposts, during which we considered 40 readings from Mark more or less on the 40 days of Lent. I wanted to do something […]

spammed

Monday, February 19th, 2007

For the first time in my life a spam email has prompted me to actually go to the website being promoted AND to do further internet research. Such was my reaction that it took me a good couple of moments before I even appreciated that the email I had received was in fact spam. […]

Ambushed

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Signpost readers in Melbourne, and also AFL and Cricket lovers may be familar with the ambush marketing tactics of Holden which has used its blimp to ‘over shadow’ the marketing efforts of competitors such as Toyota at key sporting events - usually at the MCG…  
Well the “Parachute Conference” is now over in New Zealand with over 27,000 […]

Technical issues

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Just updating our software, with the much appreciated help of D. Hopefully all will be back to normal soon(ish).

Global warming is a moral issue.

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Humanity is in the process of effecting a change in the world’s climate, that even exceeds the natural cycles that in the past have produced ice ages. The impact on the life of this planet will be monumental and it is already being felt.
Thousands of people have already become climate change refugees from Wellington, NZ […]

greenman on church stats

Monday, February 12th, 2007

The greenman posted a while ago on some interesting church stats:
“At 89% attendance the Nigerians truely are a church going nation, they have a church attendance more than double that of the USA (you heathen lot). As for Australia we only made it to 16%, which from The Green Mans anecdotal experience is fairly generous. […]

Does Catch the Fire hate Muslims?

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Catch the Fire Ministries has won an appeal against a ruling that it vilified or seriously ridiculed Victoria’s Muslims (Who are we Defending, Vilified not Vindicated) and the case will return to Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Does that mean they don’t hate muslims after all? Well the jury is still out - so to […]

Tool

Monday, February 12th, 2007

On the day when the papers report that Rudd’s approval rating has hit 65%, Howard decides to enter into a public bitch fight with newly announced candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Barak Obama:
“If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as […]

playing again

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

We are playing around with the look of signposts again..
Ah the joy!