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This is the kind of game that would just make any family’s St. Stephen’s Day celebration complete. Together, testing each other’s brand awareness. How fitting a commemoration of Santa’s birthday.

Your Correspondent, Escaping to West Cork for the week.

Charlie Brooker writes of the:
religious festival celebrating the birth of a man who would have doubtless vomited up his own ribcage in disgust at the mere sight of the hollow, anaesthetising capitalist moonbase that…
now passes for Christmas.
Your Correspondent, Looking for a temporary secretary

In the New Yorker the superb Ariel Levy writes about the curious case of the South African runner Caster Semenya and the gender-trouble she endured. Levy interviewed Semenya’s childhood coach in the desperately poor region in northern South Africa where she was raised:
“I used to tell Caster that she must try her level best,” Sako [...]

A leap into the dark that we might all have to make:
But most of all we’re taking our leap in the dark because we’ve belatedly realised that the sermon on the mount might actually be a manifesto for life, rather than a few nice ideals to take out for a spin on a Sunday morning. [...]

My handwriting is and always has been a scrawl.
When I write Greek, it looks like art.
What can explain this?
Your Correspondent, Kakos means bad.

The brilliant Vinoth Ramachandra makes this point in his latest blog post, How to Make Atheists.
He also writes of American Christianity:
I found myself gently defending the Dawkinses and Dennets of this world. Of course their arguments are often silly, directed at “straw men”. I have criticized them in my published writings. But the more time [...]

As the three avid readers of Zoomtard know, I have quite a problem with Northern Ireland. And seeing as those three avid readers are my wife, my colleague and my disapproving ex-housemate, they would have known about the chips on my shoulders even if I didn’t unburden them here.
I mostly only engage with Protestant [...]

Readability is the kind of development that might genuinely see this internet thing take off.
You drag the button on to your browser and it turns the text you are reading into something that doesn’t cause your eyes to convulse in an orgy of distraction; stripping all the ads and images out and reformating the [...]

As I head out to church this morning, I share this with you. Found at Clusterflock:
Of course from one point of view she was right about the Church, which grew so far, almost at once, from anything which can have been intended, and became so blood-stained and persecuting and cruel and war-like and made small [...]

Answer from Milinerd:
A group of people who ask, interminably, “What is evangelicalism?”
Your Correspondent, Probably Couldn’t Use That In His Thesis