Wow, life sometimes just gets in the way of things you want to do or maybe I’ve been doing that stuff but just not this. Anyway I was on a good run and it slammed to a halt. My last post was the 26th February and my last one of these indexes was the 14th of Feb! Well, let’s see how March turns out.

Spring is springing here, the big melt has happened in Stockholm and that means almost time to store the snowboard for another year and get the running shoes back on.

In February, I watched the following films: Taxi 2, Jungle Cruise, Prince of Persia, Top Secret, & The Thursday Murder Club.
In February I finished the following books: The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World, Relentless by Alistair Brownlee, Blue like Jazz by Donald Miller, A history of the world in 47 borders by Jon Elledge, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, A Praying Life by Paul Miller, & The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey¹.

On TV we’re enjoying The Diplomat, Would I Lie to You, High Potential and Superstore.

You Should Read These

Seven handpicked articles that that piqued my curiosity

1. Why Jesus Needed to Be Baptized
2. Yemen: Abductions hit churches hard. This is the sort of news Western Christians need to see regularly.
3. On cancelling church. Correct.
4. Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT. The Pope is also correct (on this at least).
5. Swedish shootings keep plummeting
6. How far back in time can you understand English? Clever and interesting.
7. Easy energy comparisons

You Should Look At This

NATURE!

Voting Now Open for the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award

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You Should Listen To This

I’ve been rediscovering Moby. And enjoying it.

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You Should Watch This

A little bit late with this but I do appreciate when public figures do not always take themselves too seriously: the late Jesse Jackson.

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This Week’s Postings

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From The Archives

The prosperity theology originated in the land of the capitalists but has since gone from defrauding America’s poor to defrauding Africa’s poor. It deserves every ounce of anger you can muster. Whatever else you might think John Piper was right about this (here’s the background to that video). It is a blight upon Christianity, it is the shame of Pentecostals, it is a heresy and the world knows it.

Peter’s condemnation of prosperity teaching

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