It’s been a few weeks since I wrote about my writing; it’s the end of the month almost so it seems a reasonable time to update you. Continue reading
Archive | June 2015
Review: ‘Jesus: First Century Rabbi’
Friday morning
Bin day
And I forgot to put the recycling boxes out again.
I think I might go back to sleep.
A Radical Pagan Pope?
Last week, Pope Francis’ much-anticipated environmental encyclical was published. As was expected, the Pope acknowledged the “human origins of the ecological crisis” (¶ 101), specifically that global warming is mostly due to the concentration of greenhouse gases which are released “mainly” as a result of human activity (¶ 23). And he called for the progressive replacement “without delay” of technologies that use fossil fuels. (¶ 165)
The Pope and small-p “paganism”
Image courtesy of the Scottish Skeptic
Even before Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical was published, critics were calling the Pope a “pagan”. This isn’t all that surprising given how the religious right has always accused environmentalists of “paganism”. And indeed there are some similarities between the Pope’s statement and contemporary Pagan discourse. For example, in the encyclical, the Pope personifies the earth, calling the the earth “Sister” (¶¶ 1, 2, 53) and “Mother” (¶¶ 1, 92). However, this language is drawn from…
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I have a new blog
I started a new blog this morning about my nascent craft business, ‘Rosie’s Wonky Creations’.
The South Lincolnshire Regiment at Waterloo
Hello.
I started writing this first thing this morning but anxiety got in the way of concentration. I did some reading – nothing serious – and some sewing instead. Continue reading
Lowering the voting age?
One of the manifesto policies of the Greens at the last election was that they would lower the voting age to 16. Now that we have a potential EU Referendum coming up they have asked for support in a vote to get the vote extended to 16 and 17 year old for this particular matter.
