28 July 10
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My good friend and former colleague at Queen’s Chaplaincy, Father Gary Toman, often speaks about having a grá for something. It is the Irish word for love but it takes on a guttural description for that passion for something that...
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26 July 10
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HEAD UP NORTH (On Bonfire Night) (This was inspired by having to preach my first July sermons in nearly twenty years... on the evening of July 11th I was sharing thoughts from 2 Chronicles 7: 14 and how we need...
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22 July 10
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CROWDED HOUSE - Intriguer Neil Finn as a quality songwriter has never been in doubt though perhaps his ability to sell his genius and thus product has been what has let him down. Like a golfer with a great swing...
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19 July 10
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Behind the obvious shock of the result, there was something even more remarkable about the relatively unknown South African Louis Oosthuizen winning the 2010 British Open Golf Championship at 200-1. For a white Africaaner to begin his Open winning speech...
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17 July 10
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“I’m slowin’ down a little bit Takin’ my time Slowin’ down a little bit Yeah when I was a young boy Honey my fuse was lit Yeah when I was a young boy Honey my fuse was lit Losin’ my...
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14 July 10
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I have had blisters on my fingers in recent years giving vent to my anger at how the British music press dismiss Snow Patrol while daring to laud bland Beatles’ covers band Oasis Quo. Snow Patrol main man Gary Lightbody...
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13 July 10
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It would have been as wrong for the Netherlands to win the World Cup in South Africa as England winning it in Dublin or the USA in Baghdad; unlikely events I know! That the Orange clad Africaaner would have been...
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11 July 10
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(The final blog of the South African series in celebration of the 2010 World Cup... an altar call and prayer that we commit... after that God knows what can happen!) “This may sound too simple but is of great consequence....
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8 July 10
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(the penultimate South African blog that has been celebrating the World Cup in that amazing land... we go to Robben Island for some apocalyptic advice...) It is quite pleasing to the eye on a tourist bus. The lime quarry is...
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6 July 10
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(as the semi finals are played and we come near the end of South Africa's place at centre stage... we start to ask hard questions in the daily blog...) My mate Gordon says he is trying to work out how...
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4 July 10
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(here is the script of a quiet service that I took at Fitzroy on July 4, 2010...) My colleague Whitney made a couple of comments these past couple of weeks that led me to thinking of Jesus and how he...
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3 July 10
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(another quarter finals day and to celebrate another soul spinning challenge from South Africa,,, the Sonop Vineyard leaves me with a visual reminder of my resposibilities... read yesterday's blog to set the scene!) It was a stark contrast. It was...
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2 July 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/07/fair-trade-which-side-of-the-fence-are-you-investing-in.html
(after a couple of soccer free days the World Cup is back with quarter finals... and so we build to a climax ourselves... seeing Fair Trade at work is very convincing...) It was a more remarkable learning curve than we...
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30 June 10
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(as the World Cup takes a break, so do we! Here's a review of the Fitzroy Festival... great stuff!) So the idea was to run a Children’s Festival and simultaneously do something for the adults next door. As a trial...
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