Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Stephen Garner
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For those just venturing into the realms of the blessed coffee bean check out Coffee snobbery for beginners.
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A friend lent me a copy of “The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics” by Ched Myers the other day so I could look at the Matt 25 parable of the talents. An interesting reinterpretation of the parable that is as shocking in our capitalist times as the original probably was to Jesus’ audience. Myers has…
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While flicking through this week’s Listener magazine I saw a reference to this. Unbelievable. I wonder if they do a Tony Blair as well? Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush – U.S. President and Naval Aviator – 12″ Action Figure. Click here for a picture. More details and a picture at KBToys.com
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I’ve been reading and thoroughly enjoying Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy at the moment. Somewhat appropriate give Mars’ current proximity to Earth. The books are science fiction but are not beyond the realms of our current technology. As well they deal with many issues to do with the creation of new societies and cultures…
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The other day I was listening to the radio programme Touchstone on Radio NZ’s National programme and they featured the “Truth Claims” radio broadcast. It’s a Canadian programme about religious, and in particular Christian, claims about the truth in our contemporary world. Well worth a listen. You can either buy the tapes from CBC or…
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Welcome to GreenFlame! I’ve decided to move to a web log format but still maintain the links library on my own pages. Over the next few weeks I’ll be adding more links in. If I mention a link in a posting I’ll try and add it into library at the same time. Cheers, Stephen.