August 2003

The Next Sexual Revolution – Christianity Today Magazine: “More than four decades after the introduction of the Pill, hardly anyone now getting married remembers the time when pleasure, procreation, passion, companionship, and parenthood were all intimately knotted into a bundle called marriage. Without those connections, marriage has become an arena for mere self-fulfillment and sexual [...]

Memory is a deceptive thing……..
Telegraph | Connected | Volunteers at fake seance ‘remembered’ seeing table levitate: “In an experiment, up to a third of people who attended a fake seance later ‘remembered’ seeing a table levitate – even though infra-red cameras recorded that it remained grounded to the floor”

~This kind of thing gives churches a bad name. I don’t know what people are thinking of when they restrain children in this way. As a psychiatrist I know that restraint can be dangerous- in the UK physical restraints (such as straightjackets) are no longer used for prescisely this kind of reason. Charisma [...]

Joshua Claybourn’s: also thinking about Martyn Luther King this week “Anytime I watch the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, it sends shivers up my spine. What a powerful, truthful and well-delivered message. If you have the capabilities, watch this 10 minute, 17 second Real Video clip of Rev. King, Jr. on the steps of [...]

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: “JERUSALEM (Reuters) – For centuries passers-by have thrown rocks at an ornate tomb in Jerusalem’s Kidron Valley, reviled as the traditional burial place of the biblical King David’s villainous son Absalom.
But in one of those strange twists unique to the Holy Land — where tombs can [...]

If like me you love biography and are fascinated by the man who is in the authors view the greatest to have ever occupied No 10 Downing Street you will love this book. I just finished it and wanted to record some thoughts for prosterity.
Churchill was an amazing man and was known to have [...]