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I was asked by my church leadership a while back to write something based on the prayer from chapter 2 of the Book of Jonah to be used in a sermon series on the prophet’s story. Requests like that are always tricky, but I accepted and, having managed it, I read the piece at the
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“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10) It’s a verse often used in certain quarters, under the rubric of encouragement, to bludgeon the hurting for a failure to demonstrate happiness in pain. No thought given to the harm this misapplication does or what it implies, namely that God is not to be
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Last year, I exhibited three poems at an exhibition at the offices of our church here in Linlithgow, organised by my wife. This year, the exhibition has moved to the bigger space of the church building, expanding its range of media–already wide last year–and the reach of its contributors to include several people from outside
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I managed to scoot up to the Ingleby Gallery on Thursday to catch Alison Watt‘s installation “Dark Light” on its last day. Her shift from white canvases to black is logical: a further step in the stripping down that is represented by her progression from full-blown portraits to paintings of fabric to paintings of purely
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I’ve added a couple of new links to the “Faith” section: Foundation is an emerging church group in Bristol in which a friend of mine is heavily involved. The site has some basic information about the group and links to blogs by Foundation members, but consists mainly of intimations of events. Perhaps Virtual Theology is
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Mars Hill, the blog of fellow Subway member Paul Burgin has a link to and post about Tonguefire. The main focus of Paul’s blog is political, so I’ve linked to it under “less literary blogs”. Under “Theoblogical/Emergent”, I’ve also added a link to Paul Thomson’s wee beautiful pict blog. Paul’s theological/ecclesiological musings are consistently stimulating,
Amy Jo Philip 