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Online participants can watch the video of all Plenary and Multiplex sessions through the Lausanne Global Conversation website in one of the 8 Congress languages. Then online participants can join in discussion around each Congress session with participants on-site and other Christians around the globe. Automated translation technology allows discussion to take place across [...]  via static02.mediaite.com Posted via email from Tony Watkins The results of a survey into whose opinion people most trust about films has just been published, prior to the British Film Institute London Film Festival. It’s clear than people don’t trust film critics, with even the wonderful Mark Kermode only reaching 3%, though I think this is simply because most people don’t actually [...] I can’t remember who it was who posted this on Twitter a few days ago, but I’m glad they did. As the tweeter said, everyone with children should watch this:
via conspiracyoffreedom.org Posted via email from Tony Watkins [...] Colin Duriez, the most knowledgeable person on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien I know, interviews ‘the Tolkien Professor’, Corey Olsen, for Festival in the Shire Journal. Here’s one question which particularly interests me. You can read the rest here, but you’ll need to go to the Festival in the Shire home page to access [...] IN 1988, Stephen Hawking, a British cosmologist, ended his best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time”, on a cliff hanger. If we find a physical theory that explains everything, he wrote—suggesting that this happy day was not too far off—“then we would know the mind of God.” But the professor didn’t mean it literally. [...] Stieg Larsson’s Crime novels Interview with Tony Watkins by Christian Bensel, 23 March 2010
The bestselling Millennium Trilogy features cases of mass murderers, human trafficking and government conspiracies. 27 million copies have been [...] I was struck by these comments about the loss of beauty in British life by the philosopher Roger Scruton:
In the ’50s and ’60s, when my generation was growing up, British people were actively recruited by the educational system and the worlds of art and religion to an aspirational culture. Those were the [...] via xkcd.com Posted via email from Tony Watkins 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. Facebook500M 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 [...] |
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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