comic?

Not so much ’spotted’ as ‘unmissable,’ right next door to our office and in the view of everyone who enters the department.

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age of consent update

Just to update the situation on the ‘Scottish age of consent non-consultation‘, even though it’s not particularly up to date – last week the Times reported that the Scottish parliament has rejected the recommendation that the age of consent should be lowered (to as young as 13 if the child’s partner was 15).
If you remember, [...]

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all lawful endeavours

The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill. It requires “all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life and the life of others;” it forbids “the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour, unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.”
The House of Commons has decided that hybrid embryo research and ’saviour siblings’ [...]

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says mr colquhoun

This excerpt from the first chapter of John Colquhoun’s little book on Repentance is related ever so slightly tangentially to some of the comments on this post.

A true sense of sin is an affecting sight and feeling especially of the exceeding sinfulness or malignity of sin. It is a sense not only of our evil [...]

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grace in exodus

“When God shows mercy to the miserable sinner, he does it without respect to any merit in him. He does it freely, ‘without money and without price.’ It is a pure act of grace on the part of God. ‘By grace ye are saved.’ If he were to deal with us according to our own [...]

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aid for burma

An email update from Barnabas Fund says that they’re still able to get aid into Burma, via Christian contacts who they were already in touch with.
Barnabas Fund’s aid for Christian victims of the Burma cyclone is being channelled through Christian organisations and churches on the ground in Burma, to which we have access. It is [...]

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fairly quiet on the politics front

I’ve been having a wee smattering of referrals from the Scottish Roundup (‘Reporting from Scotland’s Soapbox’).
I hope nobody’s too disappointed to arrive in the search for Scottish political commentary, only to find me doing little more than writing round the clock and singing to mice.
Other stuff that may possibly be of interest (generated manually, not [...]

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got company

I’m just sitting at my desk, right here in the office, working on a paragraph, trying not to fret too much about the fact that two little mice are hiding behind a bookcase on the other side of the room. They converged on it within minutes of each other, from out of the kitchen and [...]

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as the wise man said

Ohhhh, the sheer unending grinding, aching, draining, wearing, grinding pain of writing a thesis.
Truly, my friends, of making many revisions there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
(Ecclesiastes 12: 12, postgrad paraphrase).
Meanwhile, some unconnected stuff:
* a moral dilemma over the Lisbon treaty. Is it possible to pledge to buy an [...]

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