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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Church "Traditions"

A friend asked me about infant baptism last night. I'm of the opinion that baptism is something a person should choose for themselves, but if it was done to you as an infant, no harm there. I don't think it precludes you from choosing to get

Guy Fawkes Night

Found this in the BBC News: Guy Fawkes plot 'was devastating'. I never knew the man had been in the army before. Guy Fawkes could have changed the face of London if his 1605 plot had not been foiled, explosion experts have said. His 2,500 kg of

Free Association

Found Unconscious Mutterings game of free association on Hubby's blog. Free association is described as a "psychoanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content." Over

Linkables

Places worth visiting: The Pepys Project: "a happy little index of blogs, diaries and journals from around the world." Ever wondered who's blogging from Antarctica, or the Caribbean, or Asia? Go find out. Or visit a random blog from around the world. The Ageless project: "

Pondering disciplines part 2

Henri Nouwen in "Creative Ministry" says there are five different areas of ministry. There is some overlap with Richard Foster's disciplines: Areas of ministry: teaching, preaching, counseling, organizing, and celebrating. I think you teach the believers and preach to everyone else, but "preach" has

Brain drain

This is strange, an artist has sold his brain: An artist has put his brain up for sale. But this is more than a mere stunt - investors could see a big payout. He just has to die first. Art and commerce have always been regarded as an unholy alliance,

More right handedness

In other news, most walruses are right-flippered. The walrus has been added to the growing list of animals that seem to prefer using one hand, or flipper, over the other. The ivory-tusked sea mammal tends to use its right flipper to forage for clams on the sea bed, say scientists.

Right handed

Finished converting the site to having a sidebar on the right. Still poking about in the style sheet, but pretty much finished now.

New layout

Outside the footer, not a table statement in sight! All I need to do now is convert 40+ pages to using a table-free, CSS 2 column layout. Thanks go to glish.com's CSS layout, which I have gratefully snaffled, to BrainJar.com for the CSS positioning tutorial, and

Pondering disciplines part 1

Richard Foster "Celebration of Discipline" has three types of discipline, inward, outward and corporate. Got me thinking. Inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study. These are the ones I'm not too good at. Prayer and study are OK, but the other two? What does biblical

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