In this week’s Sunday Sermon Jim Jepps wonders whether negative campaigning actually works. We are all doomed. In the long run everyone of us will die. At some point in the future even the human race will cease to be. And then, at last, the universe itself faces a slow […]
In this week’s Sunday Sermon the stupendous comedian and blogger Kate Smurthwaite takes on reality itself. What a joy to be asked to write a sermon. No wonder vicars and priests have for so many centuries ignored the tsunami of counter-evidence about virgin births and miracles and encouraged their “flock” […]
It’s interesting that when you hear people talking about the war (the Second World War, not the current ones) something they often mention is the hardship of rationing. When did we start seeing rationing as a bad thing? My grandma thought wartime rationing was great. Bringing up five kids, with her […]
In the first of a regular feature Big Smoke takes to the pulpit. This week Jim Jepps takes on tribalism in politics. With the Occupy Movement creating a unique fusion of camping and political philosophy (spawning the greatest political pun ever “This is the winter of our discount tents”) it’s […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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