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Oslo's Outlier
Is there a case for dramatizing real-life terrorism?
It was an old mantra of the UK government not to give the oxygen of publicity to known terrorists, but the media landscape has altered so much that this dictum hardly applies now. The atrocities of 9/11 have been viewed hundreds of millions of times online; in most cases, presumably, by people who were horrified by them. Social media provides a planet’s worth of oxygen to terrorists.
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Silicon Valley Blues
In giving more time and attention to bad things online, we attract algorithms which make us depressed and
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The Black Wave
What happens in a community when it is overwhelmed by natural disaster and the cameras have moved on?
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Why God Doesn't Look Like Elon Musk - Or Adam Smallbone
Researchers at the University of North Carolina
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The Truth Is Out There
The first Gulf War in 1991 did not take place. This was the judgment of the philosopher Jean Baudrillard
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The Black Wave
What happens in a community when it is overwhelmed by natural disaster and the cameras have moved on?
Disasters come and go for those who consume news from afar. The Church responds with prayers which are well intentioned and effective but not usually enduring. Our thinking is channelled by the media which is addicted to the latest crisis and our empathy shifts with it. This habit feels bewildering and can lead to passivity and despair when we address too many issues in our intercessions. It is so hard to pray about so many different problems at once and last month’s crisis is quickly filed at the back of the cabinet to make room for something new. True intercession begins at the throne of God, not on our social media news feed, however helpful this may be as a prompt, which calls for a quiet, responsive heart that listens to the intuitive whispers of the Spirit.
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Britain has constructed a culture which makes children breathe the toxin of materialism.
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Have we become so protective of personal autonomy in following Christ that we no longer submit to external discipline?
Day Seven
When God calls us to rest, he shows us what he can do while we sit back
You shall carry out an audit. If one commandment were to be added to the ten by our generation,