I just never quite managed to get to blogging last week, or at least, I never got around to finishing blogging last week. Some weeks seem to go like that. I’ve managed to do OK with reading, very well with running but not very well with writing this year. Maybe because writing on here is like my work but not actually my work (or at least not all of it) and so I don’t always want to do an activity that is very much like my work when I’m not actually, you know, working. But then again that’s the blurry life of a church worker – where work ends and life begins is not always very clear.
In other news I ran another half-marathon last Saturday and got a second PB of the year at the distance of 1:38:51 so obviously quite pleased with that!
You Should Read These
Seven handpicked articles and there are some crackers this week.
- Fast-Food Theology – A Case Study On Men (and Women) and Sex
- Is There a Christian Genocide Happening in Nigeria?
- Quelle Surprise: Le Quiet Revival!
- Echoes down the line. This is a nice testimony.
- On Additive and Extractive Technologies
- The geological history of the Mediterranean Sea. Way more interesting than that makes it sound.
- The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It’s Mind-Blowing. The first part of that headline is accurate, the last bit is a little click-baity.
You Should Look At This
Close up at CUPOTY! Incredible Finalists of the 2025 Close Up Photographer of the Year Contest (includes the featured image above)
You Should Listen To This
Hopefully farther along.
You Should Watch This
What an incredible place that I never knew existed. Dunes, lakes, tropics, sea.
This Week’s Postings
I’ve written some things!
From The Archives
Given the current storm over the bias in the BBC in the UK, here’s a piece I wrote in 2016 highlighting that very fact. It’s not new news to anyone who has been paying attention!
Now I realise it’s fairly unscientific research but I think it’s telling nonetheless that there are 5 times more stories on the issue than just two years ago and the year is not yet finished. It would be hard to argue that there has been a significant surge in popular demand for more news of a group that is (according to the BBC) around 1% of the population in the last two years. Instead, this is likely to be an editorial decision to spotlight more regularly these stories.
The long-term effect will be to normalize transgenderism. The path to change is much clearer than ever before; dull the public sensitivity to an issue through increased exposure, followed by a series of political policy shifts to which opposition can only be seen as reactionary.
Have a great weekend.
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