Bono and the Gospel

He preaches the gospel at the NAACP awards...best bit is the last 2 minutes!

more Christian Clowns

this video offers some good general pastoral advice - not just for Christian Clowns.



Classic Quote:
"remember a prop is not just a prop, it's a friend"

good advice:
"if you have a flower as part of your routine then put some perfume on it"

Perhaps we should suggest training of this sort to Bill for B202 'Sickness Healing and Dying'?

Christian clown training

The Christian Clowns are coming. Be afraid, be afraid, be very afraid.



understatement of the week:
"Clowns can be quite intimidating if you see a lot of them in one place"
no kidding!

things God doesn't do...

smoke fags

essays, exams, reading, learning files, meetings, leaving commitments, chapel, etc etc

There is a lot going on. My desk looks like this:

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Anyone else feeling the pressure?

If you take a look at Asbo Jesus you will see loads of interesting cartoons just like this one:


this one is 29

St Paul Takes Psych 101

I do not understand my stimulus control. The wants generated by my orbitofrontal cortex I do not do, but what the limbic system wants. And if I do what my limbic system controls, I agree that previous legalistic attempts to solve this were good though ineffectual. As it is I have been hijacked by my limbic system. My orbitofrontal cortex thinks nothing good lives in me, that is, in my limbic system. For the former advises me to do what it thinks is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good suggested; no, my limbic system wins every time for a dose of dopamine. Now if I do what my neocortex advises I do not want to do, it is as if there were a separate ancient mammalian brain living inside me. But that can’t be right, surely?
So I find this law at work: When my orbitofrontal cortex wants to do good, the dopamine need is right there with me. For in my inner being (which doesn’t show up on the MRI scan) I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in my behaviour, waging war against the reason of my orbitofrontal cortex and making me a prisoner to any old limbic highjacking. How wretched this unresolved cerebral conflict leaves me feeling! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The above was taken from Bruce Stanley's website Embody

songs of praise

I featured this on my blog last week - and it has kept me amused for almost as long. If you have seen it before perhaps you could tell us what they are really singing.
By the way - please don't watch this if you are easily offended.

Latest Update

oooooh I have been lazy recently. Something to do with babies and dissertations...

Well I've just updated the WT site with the last issue of (WT40) and there should be another issue out later this week.

Enjoy!