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Doug Wilson's post on the star followed by the wise men is most thought-provoking and insightful.

Enjoy!

Brilliant

The BBC reported on Friday about a sign outside a supermarket in Morriston, Swansea. The English sign read "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only". They e-mailed their road sign to Swansea Council's translation department, so that they could also put up the Welsh equivalent. They received their reply, and duly put the sign up in both languages. Apparently "Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw waith iw gyfieithu" means "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."

Last week, I was contacted by a new micro-roaster, Coffee Bean Shop, asking if I'd be interested in a free sample of some of their beans to try. I didn't have to think long about gift-horses before deciding that wouldn't be a bad idea.

I keep finding things written by Christopher Idle at the moment. It's purely co-incidence: Looking for something unrelated and stumble upon it. First some comments on the poem Death is Nothing at all, and now this.

Idle wrote a short article in New Directions magazine. I'm not particularly wanting to endorse or plug the publication – I've never seen a copy – I stumbled upon his article online.

What is an Evangelical? is a short article (so, reader, click through and read!) whose title partly defines what he's writing about. He's actually not seeking to define us evangelicals historically, doctrinally or in any other sense of what we should be. Rather he offers “a snapshot of what today's evangelical looks like. Or rather, a brief slice of fuzzy film where we have been caught on CCTV for a few minutes one Sunday.” And, yes, Idle and I are both evangelicals. This is a slightly satirical depiction from within.