Adjectives: what frippery! Unlike today’s Thought for the Day, which makes a very pleasant surprise. I would even go so far as to recommend reading or listening to it if you haven’t already. The links are at the bottom now, as to tidy auto-tweets. So, what can I possibly add?
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Friday 2nd October 2009: Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan’s Sack
It’s a shame that people grow out of the habit of building dens, so I’m glad practising Jews still make sure they revisit everyone’s childhood once a year. Because den building is awesome.
Saturday 3rd October 2009: Rev Rob Marshall
Sometimes it feels like we’ve bitten off more than we can chew. Like committing to doing a regular slot on national radio where you have to say something interesting about something topical from a religious perspective. Only when your turn actually comes around, you realise you haven’t got anything even remotely interesting to say.
Monday 5th October 2009: Clifford Longley
Have you seen that episode of ‘Homer Simpson’ where he says there are no answers in the Bible? No? Neither has Cliff, because if he’d watched even one episode of The Simpsons, with its title sung in an angelic harmony and displayed in big yellow letters in the title sequence, he’d have known that it’s [...]
Tuesday 6th October 2009: Oliver McTernan
Having not blessed us with his wisdom for some time, Olly made a special appearance today to tell us that the EU is about the decentralisation of power. Yes, that’s right. The EU wants to distribute power to individuals to govern themselves. That’s what he said. Hopefully he’ll return again soon to explain how the [...]
Wednesday 7th October 2009: Akhandadhi Das
Retirement is a spiritual matter because an old Hindu adage goes: ‘at the age of 50, retire to the forest’. They don’t do that any more because of deforestation, not because living in the forest is uncomfortable and potentially perilous.
Thursday 8th October 2009: Rev Angela Tilby
Why Angela, with this perfectly reasonable reading you are really spoiling us. I’m at a loss for derisive commentary.
Friday 9th October 2009: Rt Rev Lord Richard Harries
Oh how hard it must be for politicians to sit in their offices ordering people to risk life and limb to take lives and limbs. Still, they seem to manage it anyway, and Harries says we should spare a thought for them as they do.
Saturday 10th October 2009: Brian Draper
Fuck me that man is like a cup of tea minus the milk and the tea. He is sugary water. If I drank him expecting tea I would spit him straight out. Do you call this tea? I’d exclaim. This isn’t tea, it’s sugary water. He’s so boring it offends my palette.
Monday 12th October 2009: Clifford Longley
OH COME ON. How many times along the tour are we going to hear all about little miss holy bones? Surely we’ve said everything there is to say about the ‘little flower of Jesus’? I know I have. I would have thought that moniker alone was enough. It’s certainly enough to induce nausea anyhow.
Tuesday 13th October 2009: Rt Rev James Jones
The title of today’s reading, in reference to Northern Ireland, was: “It can take a change in the political landscape before religion can solve our problems.” Religion solves problems. It solves problems. Politics is a vehicle for religion to solve problems. Something annoys me about that statement… what could it be?
Wednesday 14th October 2009: Akhandadhi Das
How apt. I should have known one of the speakers this week would manage to waffle for three minutes on the topic of a big massive box of nothing.
Thursday 15th October 2009: Rev Angela Tilby
Everyone’s a critic. And when I say everyone, I mean literally EVERYONE. You can’t even pass a court injunction preventing the publication of a parliamentary question without the entire internet sniping and sneering about it being an undemocratic attack on free speech. Why can’t we just let people get on with it, I ask you? [...]
Friday 16th October 2009: Rt Rev Lord Richard Harries
Don’t get too excited, Dick. I call him Dick because my name is also Richard and I like it so much when people call me Dick that I thought I’d share the love. We Dicks have got to stick together, after all. Right now though, he seems to be raising his expectations at a surprisingly [...]
Saturday 17th October 2009: Brian Draper
Should we postpone children’s schooling for an extra year? Brian Draper seems to think so. He’ll be able to learn something from his offspring, namely how to be more childlike so he can get into heaven.
Excuses excuses…
Other than life, I don’t have one, but there will probably be no Afterthoughts this week. Busy busy busy. Back to normalish at the weekend.
Monday 26th October 2009: Rev Dr Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser
The Pope’s open invitation to Anglican clergy dissatisfied with the modest distance the CoE has put between itself and sexual discrimination is causing a bit of a kerfuffle. Fraser says it’s not just a ‘churchy problem’ and I shouldn’t just wave it away because I’m not involved. To that I say: okay then.
Tuesday 27th October 2009: Indarjit Singh
Indarjit says that unless we all stand up uncompromisingly for those we see as different, we’ll just keep killing each other every once in a while. He says tolerance is needed.
Wednesday 28th October 2009: Oliver McTernan
Oliver has a bit of difficulty believing that getting on his bike and using energy saving light bulbs will save the world. I think he’s right to be sceptical. It’s just not enough. He should go one step further and wire a bike into his lights, and pedal-power them himself. It’d knacker him out but [...]
Thursday 29th October 2009: Brian Draper
Faith schools admit pupils by measuring their faithfulness and that of their parents. But how do you measure faith? Dipstick? Ducking stool? Geiger counter?
Friday 30th October 2009: Vishvapani
I have no real beef with this reading, and nothing to add, so as it’s already Sunday I’ll let this one slip. It’s worth a listen if you haven’t already. Listen / Read
Saturday 31st October 2009: Canon David Winter
Funnily enough, everyone who goes to Winter’s church believes in life after death. Weird, isn’t it? It’s as if all churchgoers subscribe to a set of dogmatic beliefs insisting on the existence of an afterlife. Spoooooky!