30 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/fitzroy-festival-a-review.html
(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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29 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/townships-fertile-soil-for-crime.html
(another daily soul spinning blog looks at how the poverty of townships is a fertile soil for crime...) Just as the seeds of truth have a different potential depending on the ground on which it falls from the sower’s throw,...
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28 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/robbery-ronan-keating-and-the-prophecy-of-elvis.html
(another daily blog in the soul spinning series to celebrate the World Cup in South Africa sees the the beauty of Cape Town hit back) One of the biggest fears that the world had with the World Cup going to...
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27 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/where-would-jesus-rather-meet-us.html
(daily South African blog ponders on another spiritual dilemma from journeying in the townships; where Jesus would rather meet with us...) “Today was a day of all days. Life changing. Never to be forgotten. Mystical. Spiritual. Emotional. Beyond reason. Beyond...
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26 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/dada-street-and-the-malone-road.html
(this was re-written from the prose piece I wrote for "Sad... and Beautiful Place" a book I co authored with photographer Gordon Ashbridge... this re-write was so that the Jazz Committee could put some music below it for a gig...
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25 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/robben-island-cowrite-with-iona.html
Just four miles off the Cape Town coast Robben Island looks like a flat little putting green from the top of Table Mountain. It is a remarkable little island with a remarkable history. The reason that we all go there...
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24 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/stockman-at-clonard-on-video.html
If anyone is interested in hearing my address at the Clonard Novena this week then you can watch it in 2 parts here: http://www.clonard.com/snov2010/snovena_day7.html
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District 6 is a haunting, sacred space. We drove across it, this green gash in the middle of a modern city. It is a strange phenomenon with quite a story. We parked in various places looking for something, unsure what....
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23 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/fw-de-klerk-and-a-searching-prayer-for-peace-making.html
(the 13th in the series of daily blogs during the World Cup sees a meeting with former President FW De Klerk and a secret of peace making...) Being from Northern Ireland seems to give you access to some very influential...
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22 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/u2-africa-crumbs-from-your-table-song-2.html
(day 13 sees another look at a U2 song... this is pretty much a staright lift from my book Walk On; The Spiritual Journey of U2 (update)...) The song on U2’s 2004 album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb that...
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21 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/fitzroy-festival-line-up.html
The Fitzroy Festival is on this week at Fitzroy Presbyterian Church on University Avenue. Here 's the line up! 6.30 to 8.30! WED 23rd: David Thompson’s Monopoly at the Castlewellan weekend showed a performer of wit and tasty turn of...
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It was one of those sentences that you know as it finishes you will never forget. It was a sentence that prophetically cut through the way things were with the key to unlocking how things could instead be. As it...
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20 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/it-is-sunday-let-us-go-to-church.html
(10th day into the World Cup and a 10th blog of soul spinning thoughts from the land of the vuvuzela... It is Sunday... so let us go to Church and learn...) When you walk into the JL Zwane Church their...
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19 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/cindy-aids-and-meeting-god.html
(in the 9th soul spinning South Africa blog to celebrate 2010 World Cup we visit Cindy who will tell people God visited... but we find that somehow we might have visited God... the blog features an amazing photograph from my...
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18 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/the-last-time-i-saw-jesus.html
“The last time I saw Jesus I was drinking bloody mary's in the South...” These are the provocative opening lines of Jesus In New Orleans which is probably my favourite song by probably my favourite band, Over The Rhine, and...
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17 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/god-flesh-on.html
(7th daily soul spinning South African blog to celebrate the 2010 World Cup features an article on the mission of JL Zwane Memorial Church in Guguletu... they taught me all I know!) Between World Cup 2010’s Cape Town Stadium and...
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15 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/with-the-world-cup-under-way-and-the-vuvuzelas-blowing-up-a-storm-let-us-celebrate-the-ability-that-soccer-has-to-chan.html
With the World Cup under way and the vuvuzelas blowing up a storm, let us celebrate the ability that soccer has to change lives. It seemed appropriate that it was June 16th, South African Youth Day 2006 and the thirtieth...
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(day 5 of the World Cup and the daily blog continues with the first of a few in the series that looks at a U2 songs about Africa...) The very first time I heard Bono’s Silver and Gold I sensed...
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14 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/blessed-are-the-poor-pt-2.html
(the 4th daily blog to celebrate the 2010 Soccer World Cup being in South Africa looks at some of the things that make the poor blessed and how we in the wealthy west struggle to take up our crosses daily...)...
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13 June 10
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(the 3rd in a series of daily blogs about soul spinning lessons from South Africa to celebrate the 2010 soccer World Cup...) There was no blessing in the poverty of the cemetery in KTC, the name given to the edge...
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12 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/scenery-or-soul-spin.html
(celebrating the 2010 World Cup with a daily blog of soul spinning thoughts from South Africa...) It would be easy to come to Cape Town and not have your life messed with at all. You could fly into the International...
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11 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/stadiums-or-shacks.html
(every day during the World Cup I am going to blog a thought from South Africa... ) I am excited about the World Cup but there is a part of me that doesn’t know how I will deal with it....
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9 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/jakob-dylan-women-and-country.html
Jakob Dylan’s Women and Country has crept up on me slowly but more than surely. My first listens had me a little disappointed but on further exposure and having seen him on television and listened to radio performances the music...
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8 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/move-on-up-kidjo-bono-and-legend-fuel-transformation.html
Angelique Kidjo, in alliance with Bono and John Legend, has given African life and zest to Curtis Mayfield’s old classic Move On Up. I first heard this funky noise of positivity when The Jam covered it on their Beat Surrender,...
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5 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/this-sunday-in-fitzroy.html
On Sunday morning around the sacrament of Communion we will be looking at the confrontation between Jesus and the joint hopeful entrappers of the Herodians and Pharisees. It is an exciting episode as we reach the climax of Jesus shaking...
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3 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/world-cup-focus-gabriels-biko-and-how-i-ended-up-in-south-africa.html
(the start of a series during the World Cup when Steve shares thoughts of faith and justice based around his experiences in the country the world is focusing on - South Africa. As the England team arrives how did Stockman...
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1 June 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/06/jackson-browne-and-david-lindley-love-is-strange.html
This is Jackson Browne’s fifth acoustic live album in five years but it is the best one yet! Recorded in Spain way back in 2006 it is the best of the three, relaxed, vibrant, humorous and of course with Browne’s...
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