Things are slowing down, in our international congregation people are beginning their holiday travels, Christmas is coming.

You Should Read These

Seven articles that might be worth you bookmarking, reading & thinking about

1. Did Paul Write the Pastorals? Seven Questions For Those Who Think He Didn’t. Excellent questions, lacking good answers
2. Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad. Very good profile.
3. Sacra di San Michele: Thousand-Year-Old Mountain Abbey. Incredible!
4. A Lesson from Professor Lewis. Good stuff from Dani Treweek on what CS Lewis did or didn’t say about marriage and singleness
5. When Will the Global Population Reach Its Peak?
6. The Hottest Startups in Stockholm
7. What cricket looks like to a person raised on baseball

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You Should Look At This

25 Powerful Winning Photos From the 2023 Nature Conservancy Photo Contest

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You Should Listen To This

Another advent favourite

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You Should Watch This

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This Week’s Postings

1. Resist the urge to sanitize Scripture
2. When are a couple married?

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From The Archives

Did you know that there is an Emoji Sub-committee? There is an organisation that (Unicode) which is responsible for approving all new emojis and makes sure the symbols are compatible across platforms. So that what you send on your Android phone is the same as what your friend sees on their iPhone.

So there is a sub-committee. Naturally. And these little symbols and images, billions of which are sent each day, are more important than you think. They are little culture setters, each telling a little story. They might be gender-neutral but they’re not value-neutral. But creating gender-neutral emojis is easier said than done. They kept coming up against a significant problem. Hair.

It’s All About The Hair