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Can Those Who Minister For God Lose Form Like A Sports Player
Gerry Rafferty’s famous seventies song Baker Street, with its distinctive saxophone riff, contains the lines:
You used to think that it was so easy
But you’re trying, your trying now
Anyone who has lost form in life will identify with this couplet. .
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Why God Doesn't Look Like Elon Musk - Or Adam Smallbone
Researchers at the University of North Carolina recently asked the question: what does God look like? Their Psychology and Neuroscience Department, using varying face pairs, asked a sample of over 500 US Christians how they imagined God’s face.
The resulting composite ‘face of God’ has been published and the media was quick to seize on its similarity to tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. They have a point, though my first instinct was its likeness to the Reverend Adam Smallbone, the hapless east London vicar in the BBC TV comedy series Rev, played by Tom Hollander. So, maybe Fr. Adam was more influential in ministry than he realised.
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