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It was only when I saw U2 live this week that I realised what the secret of their success was. Practically every song has as a major feature of the chorus line the following sound “Whoah-ho-ho…”
Even idiots like me can sing along.
Your Correspondent, Like a mole, living in a hole

That’s what I got to thinking when I read that the military rulers of Fiji have banned what is essentially “Hymn-Idol” from happening this year for fear of it encouraging political instability. Every year, the Methodist church in Fiji has a choir contest and worship session where about 10,000 of the 300,000 Fijian Methodists attend. [...]

Nine of the bailed out banks in America have paid bonuses of over a million to… 5,000 separate employees.
Your Correspondent, Would like a bonus of book tokens this year Mr. PCI

In his introduction in his Introduction to Christianity, Pope Benedict writes:
both the believer and the unbeliever share, each in his own way, doubt and belief, if they do not hide from themselves and from the truth of their being. Neither can quite escape either doubt or belief; for the one, faith is present against [...]

So asks Robert Wright, over at the Atlantic. Last week in comments we had this discussion at Zoomtard with a Califronian reader called Dave. He doesn’t think much of us God-botherers. Robert Wright doesn’t think much of historical Christianity, but he seems to be able to hold to a position that still respects Christians. That [...]

Allegedly, you spent fifteen minutes of the last Harry Potter movie with your eyes closed. While blinking.
The really weird thing is that human being spontaneoulsy synchronise their blinking while watching movies.
So what does it suggest, that our bodies inherently respond to story so powerfully that we implicitly know when to close our eyes so [...]

There are 440,000 people on the Live Register in Ireland. Approximately 44,000 of those people are from “Eastern Europe”, more accurately referred to as the EU ascension states. Of those 44,000, 60% are claiming full unemployment benefits because they have fully subscribed stamps under Ireland’s PRSI system. Or in other words, foreigners are not simply [...]

Even here on Zoomtard in recent days it has been suggested that there is a co-relation between a faith in atheism and intelligence and indeed a negative co-relation between scientific practice and the Christian faith.
The National Bureau of Economic Research has just published an extensive study on the role of faith in the life [...]

Nelly and Transfarmer and Wife-unit and I trooped into town to see U2 last night. Thankfully Nelly brought the whiskey so we got through The Script without killing ourselves.

(Image from Boldorak)
The performance is stunning. The show is overwhelming. But there is something deeply surreal about watching a gig live on television, which is basically [...]

David Keen is an Anglican minister with a prolific blog about doing church in new ways.
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I am Declan is the blog of a deadly footballer who will probably become the first Baptist [...]