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Free downloads of conference talks and sermons
Thu, 29/01/2009 - 16:57 — JamesThis is worth flagging up. It may be old news, but it was new to me: Proclamation Trust has decided to make lots of their online media free to download. Previously, MP3 talks and sets of talks had to be purchased. Now lots, but not all of it, is free.
The download location is http://www.proctrustmedia.co.uk/shop/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=1.
… read more »Probably no God?
Wed, 21/01/2009 - 16:58 — JamesI know, I'm two weeks late to be commenting on this... but I've been on holiday.
The recent advertising campaign, bankrolled by the British Humanist Association, and backed by Richard Dawkins, has received a lot of publicity.
King of Terrors: Death Still Not Nothing
Tue, 20/01/2009 - 14:32 — JamesSince I posted on Henry Scott Holland's poem “Death is Nothing at all”, that blog post has overtaken my sermon on 1 Corinthians 13 as the most visited page on this site. Curiously, both the Scott Holland text and 1 Corinthians 13 are popular passages at funerals.
… read more »The Lost Tools of Learning
Mon, 05/01/2009 - 16:37 — JamesI've never read the whole piece before, so I was delighted to discover Dorothy L Sayers' 1947 essay The Lost Tools of Learning online. The web address for the copy I found is http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html, but I'm sure it's in lots of other places as well.
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