Mark's Place

Now that' s a church.... It's the church at the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

From Mark Russell's blog...

"The Church is apparently losing young adults, cannot engage with them, and is unable to harness their gifts. Yet there was 350 young adults passionate about their faith, and desperate to serve God with their lives. The Church of England would do well to ask how does HTB do it?

If you haven't seen this yet you should take a look - it's superb. This is not my endorsement of Obama - just admiration for a video

Some vid's from the Internet....Would you like to see more of this kind of thing?

The iPhone ads are online.

Did somebody say cool?

Could we do something as subversive as this for the viral competition this year?

I saw in the Guardian yesterday a really extraordinary article by Mike Hulme, a professor and the founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia. I could hardly believe what I was reading. Here's a taste:

What matters about climate change is not whether we can predict the future with some desired level of certainty and accuracy (ie we can't); it is whether we have sufficient foresight, supported by wisdom (ie we have opinions not facts), to allow our perspective about the future, and our responsibility for it, to be altered. All of us alive today have a stake in the future, and so we should all play a role in generating sufficient, inclusive and imposing knowledge (ie forcing people to think like us) about the future. Climate change is too important to be left to scientists - least of all the normal ones.

The essence of the article seems to be, "the science does not support taking drastic action on carbon emissions, we therefore clearly need a new kind of "science"." I was so stunned by this doublethink I kept it open to write something about it. But Melanie Phillips has beaten me to the punch.