The last one of these I did was week 24 – which is a bit shocking to me

The Week’s Postings

Just one post this week as I get back into the swing of things post-holiday but I’m quite proud of it.

Friday: Illegitimate, immoral & illegal

And related reading

• Hiroshima bomb: Japan marks 75 years since nuclear attack
• How the H-Bomb Led to a Reckoning in Japan
• How many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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Sweden

For a while I’ve been posting articles about Sweden because, well I live here, and two Sweden’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic stirred up a hornet’s nest. That seems to have died down a fair bit, so here are some more generally Sweden related posts with a brief comment from me.

• Watching My Child Experience Racism in a Country of Contentment – Sweden has become significantly multicultural in a short space of time and not everyone is happy about that!
• Sweden’s male-only supper clubs…for feminists – because no one can be feminist enough!
• ‘My house looks happy’ – this is probably as close to most Swedes get to a religion: doing up the house!

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From the archives

Why gather? For someone & for something: “We are still witnesses to the transforming power of the gospel and if you can’t give an answer to how believing the gospel has changed you then it’s quite possible you have bigger problems.”

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Some interesting things (to me)

Seven posts that caught my eye.

1. Could possession of the Bible become an offence in Scotland?
2. Kashmir, One Year On
3. Madagascar and Britain: comparing two doughnuts – a new way of thinking about how economies should work
4. CH Spurgeon’s amazing Word of Knowledge
5. THINK 2021: Peter Leithart, Theological History, 1&2 Kings, and the Post-Christian West (& here are the sessions from the 2020 conference)
6. Explore ‘The Last Supper’ – I thought this was amazing. I loved it.
7. What’s That Little Pocket on Your Jeans For? – Did you know? I didn’t.

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Eye-catching stuff

Spectacular Shortlist Announced for Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition

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Seven Twitter highlights (plus a few extra)

1. A vision for life that inspires me
2. The ultimate summer dream for many Swedes
3. Neil Armstrong responding to a teacher who was skeptical about the moon landing
4. This is Christian parenting
5. Some more hero dads.
6. Twitter as a medium for Old Testament theology
7. Thighland?

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Something to watch

Have a great weekend.