Beauty for Ashes

Quantum 48 - Adverts; Monty Python; Jeremy Hunt; Mark Fields; Forced Abortion; Patrick Harvie; Toy Story 4; The Archers

 

1) Adverts - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000610x

2) Monty Python – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/06/22/itvs-new-comedy-rules-python-would-cease/

3) Jeremy Hunt – The party of the family – different shapes and sizes https://twitter.com/jeremy_hunt/status/1142554762392592384?s=12

4) Thatcher - Thatcher – A Very British Revolution –  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0005pt1/thatcher-a-very-british-revolution-series-1-3-enemies

 5) Mark Fields and Kirklees.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/kirklees-grooming-gang-yorkshire-child-sex-abuse-police-arrests-a8968501.html

6) Forced Abortion https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/06/24/forced-abortion-decision-overturned-on-appeal/

Scotland declining birth rate - https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-makes-new-demand-for-immigration-to-be-devolved-as-birth-rate-continues-to-fall-1-4945797

 

7) Boy suspended over two gender row -https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7171195/Teenager-17-insisted-two-genders-suspended-school.html 

 Scouts redo guidelines - https://www.transgendertrend.com/scout-association-new-transgender-guidance-big-step-forward/

8) Toy Story 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmiIUN-7qhE

9) World News Xi Xinping and Kim Jong Un - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/world/asia/kim-xi-summit.html?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=14468&user_id=a8721920a52db1f719078fd52bd2e2a5®i_id=57717561ing-news

 

10) The Archers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNEawM6vZf4

 

 

Quantum of Hope 47: Hong Kong; London; Nigeria; Forgiveness; Womens World Cup; Fathers Day; Oxford Passion Play; Black Metal; School Trans; St Silas; Puritan Wives; Pink Floyd

• Hong Kong –

http://shanghaiist.com/2019/06/16/sing-hallelujah-to-the-lord-has-become-the-unofficial-anthem-of-the-anti-extradition-protest-movement/?fbclid=IwAR1MPPpxLIdA529VmXleD5EfjpeRQ1wfAwyyG4uoGx1bnsAySYNei6Vz1eo

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/world/asia/hong-kong-protests.html?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=14347&user_id=a8721920a52db1f719078fd52bd2e2a5®i_id=57717561ing-news

 London - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48646922

 Slaughter of Christians in Nigeria - https://www.christianpost.com/news/nigerian-genocide-unborn-babies-slaughtered-like-chickens-entire-tribes-left-homeless.html?uid=38b40306c7

 Quilette – Clinat Margrave – lack of forgiveness…

https://quillette.com/2019/05/03/quillette-podcast-31-two-poets-clint-margrave-and-timothy-green-discuss-the-public-shaming-of-fellow-poet-frank-sherlock/

. The Womens World Cup

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/graham-spiers-lets-apply-proper-perspective-to-the-womens-world-cup-q02mvrvk9

Fathers Day – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00060v

 Oxford City Council and the Passion Play - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606054/Council-blocks-performance-Passion-Christ-thinking-live-sex-forcing-organisers-cancel-minute.html

 Another Brick in the Wall – https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/18/another-brick-in-the-wall-the-threat-to-children/?fbclid=IwAR0ACp_uBBe_iM5ZcsmUO6TJ1yz1rqHB3SOx0LmTmgejT4Vh6XGO-ToX6wA

 Black Metal –

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2019/5/13/lords-of-chaos-film-brings-back-norwegian-black-metal

St Silas - https://www.christiantoday.com/article/glasgow-congregation-votes-to-leave-episcopal-church-of-scotland/132638.htm

 The Puritans –

Quote of the week –

 

 

 

 

 

Quantum 46 - Censorship; Dr Who; Andy WIghtman; WW2 Trans; Abortion; The Vatican on Gender; Copeland and Chalke; Ps 130

Censorship - 

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613644/youtube-is-deleting-videos-on-nazi-history-as-part-of-its-hate-speech-crackdown/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=twitter

Julia Hartley Brewer -

https://t.co/bCpPR7Kdlf

Dr Who - https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/06/05/transphobia-has-no-place-in-the-whoniverse/ 

Andy Wightman – Green MSP - https://twitter.com/andywightman/status/1137017582425391105?s=12 

Transgender - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45937939/meet-the-99-year-old-transgender-ww2-veteran

 Abortion – a necessary violence – https://twitter.com/mez1972/status/1137713111140655104?s=12

The Vatican - https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/06/10/vatican-document-condemns-gender-theory-as-cultural-and-ideological-revolution/

Kenneth Copeland.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtF34Mrsf

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094061/Televangelist-Kenneth-Copeland-Inside-Edition-interview-defends-using-THREE-private-jets.html

 Steve Chalke - https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/10/the-lost-message-of-chalke/

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/7-june/regulars/podcast/podcast-steve-chalke-on-the-lost-message-of-paul

Keith and  Kristyn Getty – Ps 130

  

Quantum 45 - D-Day; Trump's Visit; Sadiq Khan; Tiananmen Square; Hope not Hate; Sudan; Atheism; Tolkien; Afghan Cricket; Florence Nightingale; A.S.K

1) D-Day – 

2) The Presidents State Visit –

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/03/donald-trumps-uk-state-visit-us-president-praises-boris-johnson/

 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sadiq-khan-hits-back-over-donald-trumps-stance-on-abortion-a4158186.html

https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/04/debate-night-reflections-trump-and-strathclyde-uni/

 Tiananmen Square. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42465516

3) Praying for the President. - David Platt –

https://www.mcleanbible.org/prayer-president

4) Hope not Hate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48488732 -

5) Sudan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-48505400/sudan-crisis-security-forces-attack-protesters

6) Atheists -  

7) Tolkien - https://pjmedia.com/faith/disneys-tolkien-movie-cuts-out-the-christian-faith-that-inspired-his-life-and-work/?fbclid=IwAR273UhqdWbux7e4h48UKD0FJWz3hEKSyG_ZQgVxBWtS4QNSQNbOZQY3Sq8

8) Florence Nightingale -  

9) Cricket – Afghanistan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0005mf7

Liverpool – Kloop - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-juergen-klopp-keeps-smiling-through-triumph-and-disaster-7dw7chd89?fbclid=IwAR2g7twpuSpmxBfwC7Cbpi2F257cy2ekcLvLc561v5I3moVMfBejgyWdgBM

10) A.S.K - https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/05/in-conversation-with-andy-bannister-a-s-k-and-australia/

Quote of the week –

 Stephen Hawking – Heaven is a fairy story for those afraid of the dark

John Lennox – Atheism is a fairy story for those afraid of the light.

 

 

 

Quantum 44 - Australian 'miracle'; EU Election; Naomi Wolf; Trans and Feminism; Todd Coontz; Virtual Church; The Oldest Bible Ms; Chick-Fil-A

Quantum 44…

• Australian Miracle –
•  EU Elections -   Boris Johnson. 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/05/29/boris-didnt-lie-even-did-harassing-brexiteers-courts-outrageous/

• Indian and Israeli elections

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48454514

• Trans Battle –

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7070773/Vicar-resigns-schools-plan-eight-year-old-pupils-sex-change-secret-parents.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=HQ57zai5Cpk

• Naomi Wolf

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/naomi-wolfs-book-corrected-by-host-in-bbc-interview.html

Virtual Church - 

Todd Coontz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47675301

 

 Ancient Churches and the oldest bible manuscript

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/one-of-egypts-oldest-churches-dating-back-to-the-4th-century-found-hidden-behind-ancient-basilica-wall-6086

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/scientists-finally-read-the-oldest-biblical-text-ever-found-a7323296.html?fbclid=IwAR0P6rosOCo3-zV7ZKNlXHv5vaZC2pavRAVNu1-3k-j6L5yIIu5JTxCNbyw

 Chick-Fil- A

https://godtv.com/chick-fil-a-breaks-sunday-rule-to-deliver-to-a-child-with-brain-tumor

“Many persons wish to profit by the name of gentleness, so as to gain the applause and esteem of the world, but at the same time betray truth in a base and shameful manner”  Calvin - Commentary on Isaiah 42:3 

Quantum of Hope 43 - Joel Osteen; Matt Chandler; Steve Chalke; Sinclair Ferguson; The General Assembly; Durham Church; Lucas Moura; City Alight

• Joel Osteen
• Matt Chandler –

https://www.christianpost.com/news/matt-chandler-warns-church-is-no-longer-about-discipleship-but-being-entertained.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=0fb76e0eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_15_04_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-0fb76e0eb5-2509241

• Steve Chalke –

https://viamedia.news/2019/05/15/unity-has-it-become-a-golden-calf/

• Sinclair Ferguson –

https://banneroftruth.org/uk/resources/announcements/2019/suffering-is-the-raw-material-for-fruitfulness-in-the-christian-life/ 

• General Assemblies.

 

https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news_and_events/news/2019/first_minister_praises_the_kirk_for_enormous_and_highly_valued_contribution_to_scotland 

• Durham Church –

https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Durham-Church-offers-to-cover-crosses-while-hosting-Muslim-Iftar-meal?utm_campaign=e3948b87d2-WN-20190517&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Christian%2BConcern&utm_term=0_9e164371ca-e3948b87d2-127425869

• Millenial `evangelicals

https://www.christianpost.com/news/millennial-evangelicals-more-likely-to-attend-church-weekly-than-older-generations-poll-finds.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=63e2727126-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_22_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-63e2727126-2509241

• Lucas Moura

https://www.xtheline.co.uk/exclusive-spurs-lucas-moura/?sfns=mo

 

• Grace City Alight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCr6Vvj3nRo

 

 

Quantum 41 - Archie; Abortion; Persecuting Christians; Asia Bibi; Folau; FB Bans; Extinction; Rachel Held-Evans; Trans; Israel in Germany; Brian Soutar; Champions League; Gafcon

Quantum 41 –

1) Prince Archie -

2) Abortion Horror - 

3) Persecuting Christians –

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/persecution-driving-christians-out-of-middle-east-report?CMP=share_btn_fb

 https://www.newsweek.com/ayaan-hirsi-alithe-global-war-christians-muslim-world-65817

4) Asia Bibi gone to Canada - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004yc4/prime-ministers-questions-08052019

5) Islam in Australia https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustralianConservativesParty/permalink/2055151857926085?sfns=mo

6) Folau

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/australian-rugby-player-samu-kerevi-responds-to-backlash-over-i-love-you-jesus/132336.htm 

Alan Jones - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/israel-folau-alan-jones-calls-rugby-australia-ruling-orwellian/news-story/858935453dc5cc6cc4b42854b4530f62?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

7) FB bans - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-ban.html?emc=edit_na_20190502&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57717561ing-news&ref=cta

Quoting Paul Washer - https://caldronpool.com/all-have-sinned-facebook-remove-christian-sermon-and-suspend-individual-who-shared-it-you-posted-hate-speech/?fbclid=IwAR0-6U1Wx7cVpsMcjYt3sa2npAqtYVhvYC6sCTsNl-5B78fjd34H-ToS5yI (perhaps a wee bit of the sermon in the video?)                    

Brian Soutar banned - https://archbishopcranmer.com/sir-brian-souter-barred-sponsor-turner-prize/

8) Trans Madness - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8992049/primary-school-bans-boys-girls-names-transgender-debate/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tax-expert-fired-for-saying-trans-women-aren-t-women-tpqgnm9vj

9) Extinction - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html?emc=edit_na_20190506&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57717561ing-news&ref=headline

10) The Death of Rachel Held-Evans - https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Rachel-Held-Evans-1981-2019-The-influential-blogger-who-challenged-the-evangelical-subculture

11) An extraordinary event – Israeli soldiers in Germany –  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zA7ihcXGzQ&feature=youtu.be

…https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/04/25/israeli-soldiers-sing-hatikvah-while-in-germany-for-training-exercise/

12) The Champions League - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykJYYgohSE

                                                                                                                                    Quote of the Week –

Gafcon is a movement “to guard and proclaim the unchanging truth in a changing world.”  As we heard this week, many around the world are being tossed back and forth by waves of confusion, and blown by the wind of the latest, fashionable, false doctrine.  Many are in desperate need of Jesus, who is the only one who can bring salvation. Please lift up his Church daily in your prayers, pray for us as we seek to lead, and join us in proclaiming Christ faithfully to the nations. https://www.gafcon.org/news/a-communique-from-the-gafcon-primates-council

 

 

 

Quantum 40 - The Splinternet; Japanese Emperor; Born as a Man; Indonesia; Arthur Miller; Greta; China; Obesity; Brexit and Africa; Spain; Californian Shooting; Quantas

1)The Splinternet. 

2) The Japanese Emperor 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48020703?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ocid=socialflow_twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/world/asia/emperor-akihito.html?emc=edit_na_20190430&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57717561ing-news&ref=cta

3) Indonesia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48083051?ocid=socialflow_twitter

 4) Born as a Man - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004l71

 Mary – the weight lifter - https://twitter.com/titaniamcgrath/status/1123442051436228608?s=12

5) Arthur Miller -

6) Greta and Guidance 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/04/29/we-need-a-grown-up-debate-about-climate-change/

7) ) China - https://twitter.com/pdchina/status/1123062838958780416?s=12

https://www.facebook.com/729895575/posts/10161579877505576?s=771655947&v=i&sfns=mo

8) Leeds – Obesity and Parenting - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48113843 

9) Brexit and Africa - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-jeremy-hunt-uk-wants-to-be-partner-of-choice-across-africa

10) Spain, Barcelona and books - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/18/barcelona-school-removes-200-sexist-childrens-books

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-deserved-winners-and-big-losers-of-spains-general-election/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Evening%20_Blend_20190429&utm_campaign=Evening_Blend

11) Californian shooting - https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-of-gunman-in-calif-synagogue-shooting-calls-it-horrible-act-of-evil.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=29f968492d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_29_04_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-29f968492d-2509241

12) The Quantas Alliance - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/qantas-bars-religious-leaders-from-lounge/news-story/1eb55e2826ab580f8d69107367736032

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/publisher-places-a-politically-correct-warning-label-on-kants-critiques.html?fbclid=IwAR3yh_SDIZ8_Vm6zgiIJhvM40cPopy_4FI9J63y-g5SKGzReqFNpBdxSgec

Quote of the Week:

 “To be sure, this life is not everything; but it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.” _ George Elliott – Middlemarch

 

 

Sri Lanka; Lyra McKee; Church Growth; Extinction Rebellion; Aberdeen Abortion; Trans Madness; White Books; Rees-Moog and Islam; Billy MacNeil; Steve Brady

Reporting Terror - https://www.christiantoday.com/article/sri-lankan-tragedy-prejudice-politicians-and-the-press/132275.htm

 Giles Fraser https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/21/sri-lanka-attacks-christians-worldwide-persecution-silence

Lyra McKee

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48039266?fbclid=IwAR3oTAHTM5altuAbPVQBLvVGb12PIhBVWrcGbVwECVtiJ8NbIuzwRu9hlic

Church Growth/Decline?

https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/22/new-harvard-research-says-u-s-christianity-not-shrinking-growing-stronger/#.XK-tWaxa84m.facebook

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/huge-decline-religious-beliefs-among-16104848

Extinction Rebellion Birthstrike -

 Emma Thompson – https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1118908822410682369?s=12

Aberdeen Abortion

https://www.spuc.org.uk/latest-news/31-latest-news/13847-pro-life-student-group-pursues-legal-action

 

https://www.facebook.com/AbdnLifeEthics/photos/a.175022023296590/397837861015004/?type=1&theater

Trans Intolerance- https://bjgp.org/content/69/681/170

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6894599/When-man-called-Mark-locked-threatening-kill-mother-child.html

https://www.christianpost.com/news/teacher-fired-for-protesting-pro-transgender-lessons-at-sons-uk-christian-school.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=0192d2be39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_16_05_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-0192d2be39-2509241

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17579875.snp-msps-say-sturgeon-out-of-step-on-trans-rights/?ref=ebmpn

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-10/birth-certificate-gender-laws-pass-in-tasmania/10989170?pfmredir=sm

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/schools-in-brighton-and-hove-to-start-giving-out-gender-pronoun-stickers-to-students/132184.htm

 

 https://www.christianconcern.com/our-issues/freedom/the-new-terror-we-are-watching-you-one-wrong-word-and-we-will-remove-you-from-your-job

Books Guilty of Whiteness - https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/18/nolte-library-journal-comes-out-against-books-guilty-of-whiteness/#

Anti – Islam Posts – Rees Moog - https://twitter.com/jacob_rees_mogg/status/1118916073938718720?s=12

Billy MacNeil – https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/we-wont-see-the-like-of-billy-mcneill-again/

Nick Robinson - Steve Brady…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076b7mk

 

Quantum 38 - Sudan; Notre Dame; South Korea and Abortion; Folau and Vunipola; Indonesia; : Barry Humphries; Aretha Franklin; Bejing Airport; Easter

1) Sudan Coup - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47913338

2) Notre Dame – 

https://stephenmcalpine.com/a-french-evangelicals-thoughts-on-notre-dame/

3) Indonesia – https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/16/asia/indonesia-election-2019-polls-open-intl/index.html

4) South Korea and Abortion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47890065?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbcnews

4) The Intolerance of Rugby –

- Billy Vunipola - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/47909515

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/47869324

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/peter-lynas-todays-secularism-leaves-no-space-for-billy-vunipola-or-ashers-38023235.html

https://lawandreligionaustralia.blog/2019/04/14/reflections-on-the-israel-folau-affair/

https://amp.smh.com.au/national/a-message-to-folau-the-world-doesn-t-need-more-judgmental-christians-20190414-p51e0o.html?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2E8RVEZV7hJe6O1dvcF0B0f9uJEsgdC1vXJYtcfl55k_DKlyCiv45bEms

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-don-t-think-hell-awaits-me-but-billy-vunipola-can-if-he-wants-m8lcz6xwp?shareToken=d95d486702a7dd7bf50ffbc399eb53cb&fbclid=IwAR10VehPh1GUjLr4a8x8P-HToRsnKAIcl1zpVpKdYtIqmDjl-_iZ8lTQOoc 

5) The intolerance of comedy - 

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/barry-humphries-and-the-transgender-thought-police/

6) The intolerance of science. Scientific American - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/why-we-should-all-use-they-them-pronouns/

7) The intolerance of education - Are libraries white - https://sleung.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/whiteness-as-collections/

Villanova Univeristy – https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/weimar-villanova-billie-murray/

8) The Intolerance of business -

9) The intolerance of government - Sir Roger Scruton - https://quillette.com/2019/04/15/quillette-podcast-27-sir-roger-scruton-on-being-sacked-by-the-british-government-for-politically-incorrect-remarks-about-george-soros-china-and-muslim-immigration/

10) Chinas new airport - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-47914210/what-does-the-world-s-largest-single-building-airport-terminal-look-like

11) Easter

12) Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKOIQwTiKE

“The resurrection is the place to begin if you are looking for a satisfying faith on which to base your life. Do not waste a lot of time investigating every religion under the sun....examine the evidence for Jesus instead. If he is risen you need look no further”.