Chris Hoskins on June 25th, 2009

As I write this, Michal Jackson may have died. I first saw the news on one of my friends status updates on Facebook, since then it seems to be firing round everyone, twitter is repeatedly overloaded, I suspect because many people sharing the news with each other. Those who have shared it on Facebook are [...]

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Chris Hoskins on May 15th, 2009

I got an email a few minutes ago asking me if i would be happy to speak to a reporter about this press release from the Church of Scotland. (Yes, yes, I know i’m a little bit smug, but I’m excited about it!)
It started me thinking, other than a (IMHO) very tricky website to manouvre, [...]

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Chris Hoskins on February 11th, 2009

So the other night, Linda was out and I was feeling a wee bit down. There had been a wee bit of banter on twitter and with Ann, my mother in law, about Star Trek over the weekend, so I decided to watch ‘Star Trek Insurrection’ the 9th Trek film. As I watched it, I [...]

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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 November 17th, 2008

Yep, I’m lonely, at least I will be for the next 18 hours or so. Linda’s away to New York with uni for the week. Although, I’m away to Israel for a week as of Thursday, so I can’t really complain! I’m off down to Edinburgh tomorrow though for meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow throughout [...]

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