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Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation. Powered by Tableau via Read Write Web Posted via email from Tony Watkins No one I’ve spoken to is encouraged by the line in culture secretary Jeremy Hunt‘s statement that reads: “The changes I have proposed today would help us deliver fantastic culture, media and sport, while ensuring value for money for the public and transparency about where taxpayers’ money is spent.” Do they take us for [...] Mittersill Schloss Mittersill was rebuilt in 1528 after being burned down in a peasants’ revolt. For the last 40 years it has been a conference centre, particularly for groups connected with IFES. Bible & Culture has been held here for four years, a joint project by the Schloss and IFES. More on the history here. Schloss Mittersill A timeline of the Old Testament from the beginning of monarchy in Israel. A couple of the prophets’ dates are very uncertain, notably Joel and Obadiah. Outline of Old Testament history – monarchy onwards Posted via web from Tony Watkins via lookingcloser.org Posted via web from Tony Watkins There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. This article was first published on Culturewatch. © Tony Watkins. When I interviewed Philip Pullman, I found him genial, generous and engaging. He has a sharp mind, a clever wit, and he’s a brilliant writer. He has justifiably been acclaimed as one of Britain’s finest writers, having won several awards including the Whitbread Book of the [...] Charlotte Higgins wrote this in her blog on the Guardian website yesterday. What a great response to Philip Pullman’s new book: The Good Man Jesus is a fascinating story, told in the same kind of spare, lapidary prose as the Gospels themselves or a Grimm brothers fairytale. Pullman’s gift for storytelling is in evidence on every [...] Philip Pullman seems to enjoy stirring up controversy. He annoyed many Christians with his best-selling anti-church, anti-God trilogy His Dark Materials. And it’s evident that he was out to provoke when he made comments like, ‘my books are about killing God,’ and, ‘I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.’ He’s admitted that the [...] I talked to Paul Hammond on UCB UK radio this morning about Philip Pullman’s controversial new books. The conversation was put out as a podcast on Culturewatch: Click to listen Posted via email from Tony Watkins via us.penguingroup.comHT @authenticmedia Posted via web from Tony Watkins |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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