interesting perpectives on virtual communities (on an interesting website)  http://sowhatfaith.com/2011/02/19/is-vir…  http://sowhatfaith.com/2011/05/16/new-wa…  http://sowhatfaith.com/2009/10/03/review…

Ok, to an extent this is a little pernickety. We all know that newspapers can be overdramatic and exaggerate stories to help their sales etc. But this site shows how much they really do take the biscuit. Have a look at the background story to the headline “Muslims force pool cover up” and tell me it’s [...]

Partly because it’s funny, partly because it’s a little political,  and partly because it’s relevant to some of us at CBC … ..i think it’s worth looking at the HSE website to see the collection of health and safety myths that are propagated by the media/everyone which in fact have nothing to do with any official government [...]

  ..movie of  bacteria “viruses” http://gizmodo.com/5400443

If you are going to watch a film in the next few months, do not miss Gran Torino. Funny and dramatic, it is also hugely thoughtful. Ideas about race, revenge, friendship, age, “America” to mention a few. Plus, for me, some thought provoking questions about the role of a “Christian” in relating to people. Really [...]

Apparentely Portugal has been experimenting with decriminalisation for the last five years. The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.. “…. found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number [...]

“The best show never to be on network tv” is now being shown on the BBC from the beginning, starting this week. If you are bored of the same old police drama, don’t mind long complicated storylines with grey definitions of good and bad (and if you are over 18) then try “The Wire” BBC2, [...]

Sunday 4th Jan 09 The congregation were asked the following question: Imagine it’s January 1st 2010 and you are looking back over 2009. What would you like to be able to say from a church point of view? …and encouraged to think of their answer like so: At Cippenham Baptist Church 2009 was the year [...]