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Creating a Platform

After reading the blog of Esther Rose Stewart I have been inspired to once again attempt to continue this blog every friday. Today its about software and next week I’m hoping to have something written...

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Goodbye Christopher Hitchens

I’m going to join a chorus of blog posts saying goodbye to christopher hitchens in a variety of ways. He was brilliant at writing and so I’ve found many of his fans are also really good at writing why...

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International Women’s Day

For national women’s day my most inspirational women: Florence Nightingale – Cause statistics are cool and she was one of the first to make use of pie charts to change things. She was also the first...

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The roots of Fresh Expressions

This is a reply to a text message about a church a friend is going to that is part of the fresh expressions that he felt is grassroots orientated. (He is right. It is, but there is an element where its...

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Why I’m excited by Drupal and the Church

This is another e-mail that I thought could become a blog post Drupal and the Church in the UK Looking at Drupal specifically many UK christian organisations are standardising around Drupal. HTB use it...

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My thoughts aimed at advocates of Singer

Introduction This article is a simple response to the advocates of Singer after having watched a YouTube presentation and reading around a little. This article is also heavily influenced by a debate...

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I want to work for Valve! (Or at least a company like them)

This weekend I got a little obsessed about Valve and watching Gabe Newell talk about stuff. The company structure is simply amazing. For this blog I’m going to assume you know about it but in summary...

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Connecting the church around their personal passions

Where are we going? We at Common Nonsense have been working for a while on a couple of larger projects. However the end is getting in sight for these projects and there is a question of where we can go...

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Feminism –“Why don’t they just rise up?”

Another blog where its a copy of a facebook comment responding to Vicky Beeching’s Jesus was a feminist and so am I and a discussion of BBC 4′s woman’s hour. Didn’t get any response there so I dunno if...

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Who I am – Some personality test results

I’ve done a few personality quiz like things for various reasons recently. I thought it would be fun to document them on this blog. Personally I think the strength finder’s results are most interesting...

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This is not meant for you – My place in the Church

Disclaimer: This post is a post I’ve been quite nervous about posting. I think it comes across as much more ranty then I meant it to be. I was going work on it significantly to make a specific point....

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Supporting Individuals in their Pursuit of God

As I’ve said a bunch of times, we are Common Nonsense have been thinking about why we are doing any of the things we’re doing. There seems to be quite a bit of mileage in the line “Supporting...

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Moral Absolutism vs Moral Relativism

This is an answer to a question on yahoo answers http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak9l5pzBdJiDGJP7Nzc6aVUOJ3RG;_ylv=3?qid=20130920034731AAigZcu. I was just replying for fun but my reply...

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Politics, love and can I ever have any friends?

I went to a pretty cheesy church once. It was small and they had question and answer sessions. They had questions like “Where do you feel closest to God” and the answers were things like “sitting on a...

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Questions I’d like answers to

I’ve recently joined a Connect group at HTB which is their version of small groups/ bible studies. But its HTB so its huge (some connect groups can be 80 people which is bigger then most churches!)....

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Response to Tragic worship

A friend of mine recently posted an article on my wall about worship and tragedy. I wrote a response in the comments section but it got really long and so I thought I’d post it here where I can add...

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What the church of 2015 should care about

To my churched friends…I just read RT Kendal’s letter to the church in 2015. In UK RT Kendal was a great and big deal. I wonder if this is now “old-guard”. RT Kendal is writing a letter to the church...

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Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin

To counter balance my last blog post about RT Kendal here is another Christian blog post: http://bethwoolsey.com/2013/10/3-reasons-i-quit-loving-the-sinner-and-hating-the-sin/ They are attacking the...

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Why I am supporting the Conservative Party and Dean Russell for the Election...

Summary Prelude I don’t care about voting, but I think politics and direction action matters I like diversity in political positions and I am not trying to persuade people to vote Conservative. Primary...

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