As the football season draws to a close, my team Ipswich may get promoted again. So tense!! But I’ve also found myself doing something I’ve never really done before and that’s checking the Wrexham results. That’s what a show like Welcome to Wrexham can do (although a LOT of swearing – footballers & the owners do swear a lot).

In other news spring seems to have arrived and I can’t run because I have ITB issues in my left hip and other than stretching (which I’m now doing lots of) I have to rest. Anyway, enjoy your weekend and on with the links

You Should Read These

As per usual here are 7 articles that I think are worth you bookmarking, reading & thinking about.

1. Random Thoughts on Being a Dad. I second these.
2. The Early Church Did Not Have an All-Male Leadership. Read carefully.
3. The Blurred Vision of Richard B Hays. This is the next storm in the evangelical world on sexuality.
4. Some Like It Hot: Sex and the Sauna in Early Modern Sweden. TLDR: Swedes saw the sauna as a place to get clean, foreigners thought it was a place for sex.
5. What’s Happening Now That Might Only Make Sense in 1,200 Years? Good, no great, question!
6. European Route E39: Norway’s Coastal Highway. It will be quite the feat of engineering.
7. The World’s Largest Forest Wilderness Seems to Be Shrinking. Not the Amazon and not good news.

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You Should Look At This

The Most Spectacular Photos and Videos of the 2024 Great North American Eclipse

Not every planet has a moon that will eclipse their sun. This is a 1 in a TRILLION bit of ‘luck’

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You Should Listen To This

I enjoyed this version of a hymn

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You Should Watch This

This is a difficult watch but it explains how psychological abuse works and how sadly that had become a feature and not a bug of one of the major youth ministries in the UK.

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THIS WEEK’S POSTINGS

1. How can an unbeliever be holy?

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

I can’t remember my church family ever calling for prayer and fasting for the development of a malaria vaccine. We had people refused permission to travel to Sweden because of COVID-19 yet not once have they refused permission to travel to Africa. I can’t remember governments banning travel, shutting schools, closing churches, calling for national days of prayers or invested all their resources into the development of a life-saving vaccine.

And the only reason I can think of as to why that might be is that the people dying of malaria are not in Europe or America but in Africa. One child under five dies every two minutes from malaria. Think of what we would have done if those children had been British or American instead of from Mali or Congo.

And the only word I can think of to describe that is injustice.

This is Injustice