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  • 2008
    • August
      • Reverend Dr Giles Fraser - Vicar of Putney
        08/20/08
        Rating 1 out of 5 (Hardly platitudinous at all)

        The two US presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama have answered questions put to them by Pastor Rick Warren. Inevitably they were asked about abortion. Obama stated he was pro-choice, McCain, pro-life. This is spin doctor mora

      • Vishvapani (a much nicer name than Simon Blomfield)
        08/19/08
        Rating 0 out of 5 (Not platitudinous at all)

        Michael Phelps has overcome Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and mockery of his gangly limbs and huge appendages, to become the highest achieving gold medal Olympian of all time. It is always inspirational to see adversity turned into a

      • Reverend Canon Doctor Alan Billings
        08/18/08
        Rating 2 out of 5 (A little platitudinous)

        It used to be that you were born into a country to which you owed your allegiance. You then followed your family into the job or trade that they chose for you. You followed the faith of your parents and believed what they believed. Nowadays we ha

      • Brian Draper, associate lecturer, London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
        08/16/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        Hello, Brian Draper here, from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, where we work to equip Christians to engage biblically and relevantly with the issues they face, including Work, Capitalism, Youth Culture, Media and Communication.<

      • Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet
        08/15/08
        Rating 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)

        By gum it's grim oop north. Policy Exchange think we should just abandon all those ghastly, bleak northern cities, and let their lazy, benefits addicted populations move to the more civilised south.

        This entirely misses t

      • Rev. Roy Jenkins - Baptist minister
        08/14/08
        Rating 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

        Are you getting old and senile? Have your children put you in a home and abandoned you? Is the loss of your youth and the end of your independence making you depressed? Have you been told by your doctor that you're past it and not worth spendi

      • Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney
        08/13/08
        Rating 2 out of 5 (A little platitudinous)

        Spiritual is such a hackneyed word. It's so overused that it now means little more than a personally uplifting experience. Sentimental, indulgent, rubbish. That's why you won't find me bandying around words like spiritual, like som

      • Akhandadhi Das, a Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian
        08/12/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        Russia and Georgia are at war. Both sides accuse the other of savagery and treachery, and the now mandatory "genocide". For once they're not fighting over a theological dispute, but those old favourites: territory, resources and whic

      • The Reverend Angela Tilby, of St Benet's church in Cambridge
        08/11/08
        Rating 1 out of 5 (Hardly platitudinous at all)

        Linda Buchanan was pushed off a railway platform for asking two men to stop smoking. She could easily have been killed. Despite her bravery and the shocking response it provoked, it was the victim who looked downcast when interviewed. All th

      • Afterthought of the Day
        08/09/08
        For those who'd prefer a more sympathetic (and considerably less cynical) appraisal of each TFTD, a new blog has just opened up at http://afterthought.crowth.net/.

        It looks like commentaries on TFTD are becoming a growth industry.

      • Brian Draper
        08/09/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        Hello, Brian Draper here, from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, where we work to equip Christians to engage biblically and relevantly with the issues they face, including Work, Capitalism, Youth Culture, Media and Communication.<

      • Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet
        08/08/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        That great spiritual event, the Olympic games, gets under way in Beijing today. Despite being the capital of the evil, godless Chinese, people of all races and faiths have come together to show how much better their country is than everybody else&#

      • Rev. Roy Jenkins - Baptist minister
        08/07/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Christian who spoke out against the evils of Stalin's labour camps, is dead. I read "The Gulag Archipelago" during a wet summer holiday when I couldn't find anything else to do. His first book One Day i

      • Startlingly Reverend Tom Butler, Lord Bishop of Southwark
        08/06/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        We've jusht had an ecunomical conference (hic!). Conshtantin...(hic!)...ople had one too, but they weren't a shquidshy blob like us. They invented the Nicene creed (hic!)...again. No presh were there - at Canterbury that ish. But not to w

      • Akhandadhi Das, Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian
        08/05/08
        Rating 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

        Mountaineering is a spiritual experience. We all need to get away from it all, that's why tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims decided to visit the Invisible Magic Friend at the top of a mountain all at once. Over 140 were killed in the subsequ

      • Reverend Canon Doctor Alan Billings
        08/04/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        As a Reverend Canon Doctor and Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion, Lancaster University, I was asked to teach a group of foreign students at Christ Church, Oxford. Those of you in the know, will know that this is the top college in Oxfo

      • Rev. Rob Marshall - Anglican Priest
        08/02/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        Hurrah - the Olympics are coming. Like all great sporting events, the Olympics is a terribly spiritual affair. In between being spiritual, many sports-persons will want to take the opportunity to express themselves freely. If not, then the 20,000 j

      • Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet
        08/01/08
        Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

        The poor old Anglican communion, tearing itself apart over you know what. But then there have always been arguments in the church. Saint Peter was a traditional, conservative Jew, who just happened to be first pope and hated you-know-what. Contrast

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