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The Curiosity Index: Week 14

4th April 20203rd April 2020 Phil Whittallchurch, coronavirus, COVID-19, faith, links, pandemic, reading, twitter, volcanoes0 comment

Hoping you’re all staying healthy out there – the pandemic effect on this blog continues with another full week of posts. And because a whole bunch of you are in lockdown, there’s more link goodness here than usual. So first… The Pandemic… Coronalinks 3/27/20: We’re Number One How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear The [US] Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming Is Sweden’s Lax Approach to Coronavirus the Right Call? The coronavirus pandemic will break globalisation A cinematographer’s guide to looking good in…

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The Curiosity Index: Week 12

21st March 202020th March 2020 Phil Whittallarticles, links, reading0 comment

Hoping you’re all staying healthy out there – there’s been a clear pandemic boost to this blog. A full week of posts. The Week’s Postings Sunday: Not my waysMonday: The next generationTuesday: From boys to menWednesday: In the valley of shadowsThursday: The Curiosity Index (Coronavirus edition)Friday: The Curiosity Index (Running edition) Related Reading 20 Quotes from Tim Keller’s New (Short) Book on Death We won’t find a cure for ageing until we can properly measure it How To Make the Most of Lockdown (Tips from Christians in Italy) From Isolation…

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The Curiosity Index: Week 8

22nd February 202021st February 2020 Phil Whittallbowling, dakar, links, sweden, twitter0 comment

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks which if I find the energy I’ll write about but I think I’m starting to find the time to write here again. Anyway, hope you find something of interest The Week’s Postings Tuesday: The Curiosity Index: Books edition (again)Wednesday: Unthinkable (in Europe anyways)Thursday: Book Review: A Utopia like any otherFriday: The battle for biology heats up Related Reading All these posts relate to the book review on Sweden as a utopia. As we say here varsågod (you’re welcome). Church Planting in Secular Scandinavia…

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The Curiosity Index: Week 2

11th January 202011th January 2020 Phil Whittalllinks, photography, reading, twitter0 comment

The Week’s Postings Back to average. Just the three posts this week but lots of other goodies for you to find Monday: The Curiosity Index: Books EditionTuesday: Social media hasn’t got any better for 2020Thursday: Never suboptimal Related Reading The Most ‘Abandoned’ Books on GoodReads AbeBooks Most Expensive Sales of 2019 Jeremy Williams’ books of 2019 which is the list to consider if you want to get smart on the environment, new economics, climate change etc… How to write that book in 2020: Top authors share their tips The 7…

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The Curiosity Index: The 2019 edition

31st December 201928th December 2019 Phil Whittalllinks, photos0 comment

Time to mark the passing of another 365 days and it has been quite eventful. Not least for volcanoes (which I seem to regularly point out.) The world is still struggling to look after the only planet we’ll ever line on. Losing forest and gaining heat. It was 25 years since the Rwandan genocide. But mass deaths still happen in far too many places Yemen, Myanmar, Congo, Syria. Christians are still persecuted. Yet it’s not all bad news if you know where to look. In Sweden, the nation recovers in…

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The Curiosity Index: Week 52

28th December 201928th December 2019 Phil Whittallchristmas, links, twitter0 comment

The Week’s Postings It’s Christmas so you weren’t reading blogs anyway, were you? Friday: Is there a reasonable alternative? From the archives Questions from the pool of Bethesda Bonus Material Seven posts that caught my eye recently All God’s Laws Are Equal. Are Some More Equal Than Others? The Courage To Say “Help” My Son Did Not Live One Day More or Less Than God Planned — I Take Comfort in That Truth How I came back to Jesus, my first love Why charismatic Christianity is popular with migrants Cyclist…

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The Curiosity Index: Week 51

21st December 201921st December 2019 Phil Whittallgender, links, photography, secularism, writing0 comment

The Week’s Postings For some reason posting kind of fell of a bit this week, I had several ideas but didn’t quite get them down son only three posts including this one. We’ll move on to next week. Tuesday: My 2020 reading list from everyone else’s 2019 recommendationsWednesday: Consumerism remains a deadly enemy to faithThursday: Living in a godless culture in a God-filled worldFriday: Busy, exhausted, burnt out From the archives When it comes to gender everyone is confused Judgement received. Bad news (for now) Stonewall law won this round.…

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The Curiosity Index: Week 47

23rd November 201923rd November 2019 Phil Whittallblog, links, twitter0 comment

The Week’s Postings For some reason posting kind of fell of a bit this week, I had several ideas but didn’t quite get them down son only three posts including this one. We’ll move on to next week. Sunday: Why gather? For someone & for somethingTuesday: What Betsy Willis taught me about being a family of churches Related Reading Some more evidence in support of Tuesday’s post here and here The Church as a Family by Aaron Dailey Organizing Sunday Worship From the archives Jude’s 7 instructions for Christians Bonus…