Chris on February 2nd, 2010

When I’m in my office working, I love having music playing – always my itunes collection on shuffle. Today the song “On my Bones” came on, by an artist called Kendall Payne. As it was playing the words struck me, how many of us feel that life batters us, that life wears us out? How [...]

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Chris on January 16th, 2010

People amaze me, they really do.
There’s been a tragedy in Haiti. How have you responded? Have you pledged some sort of donation? Gone out to help? Said ‘thats a real shame’ and then thought nothing more? another response?
I’m a member of a photography forum where Haiti was mentioned. Some of the responses shocked me. One [...]

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Chris Hoskins on March 26th, 2009

I know the Israel / Palestine debate is a tricky beast, but when I read this report I was truly disgusted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7960071.stm

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Chris Hoskins on January 27th, 2009

Over the last few months I’ve been wrestling with the question: ‘can community exist online?’ Specifically in a Christian context.
With the rise in the last few years in social networking technology more and more people are referring to their online community. I do it, I’m sure many of you have at somepoint as well. But [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 9th, 2009

So, my earlier post about Gaza, alongside some twitter posts I made drew the attention of a BBC Journalist looking for people to be involved in a live radio debate tonight. I only spoke on it for about a minute, but the show as a whole made for interesting listening. It lasts about 50 minutes, [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 9th, 2009

So, unless you’ve been living in the wilderness or under a rock you’ll have heard what’s going on in Gaza.For that reason, I feel no need to go into details of what’s happened, except to register my outrage and shock!
How can you justify in any way the killing of so many civilians? “We want to [...]

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