Last night the Christian Aid week TV advert premiered. Here it is if you haven’t seen it:
This is the blurb from their website:
This year’s Christian Aid Week advert highlights the work we do in helping people prepare for the worst. You can’t stop a hurricane, but you can help save lives by funding stronger buildings [...]
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Kurt pointed out MTV’s research on teenagers and social activism. It is a pdf of 81 pages of information from a 2006 survey. Well worth a read.
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Scot McKnight flag’s up a couple of interesting articles around the web this week:
Firstly, Chris Ridgeway has put Mark Driscoll’s talk about emerging into a full script on pdf -definitely worth a read.
Secondly, he links to an article on Homelessness in Heathrow from the Time. An interesting look at those who make Heathrow airport their home, even [...]
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Geldof and Bush: This is a fascinating article by Bob Geldof who travelled with the American President on his recent trip to Africa.
Thanks to Josh Harris
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There is a great debate happening over at Church Matters on the topic of social mission, and the church’s responsibility and part to play in it. Some interesting questions and thoughts coming out. I am going to go away and think about them, and then post on it in the next few days, but don’t let [...]
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Nigel points out ecocongregation - a place that has a whole load of information and resources for churches to become greener.
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David Beckham is likely to be the least green person on the planet. It has been reported that he not only owns a fleet of 15 gas-guzzling supercars [including a Porsche, Hummer and Lincoln Navigator], he has clocked up more than 250,000 miles in the air in the last year – more than the [...]
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The New Year’s Eve ball in New York’s Times Square is celebrating its 100th birthday by going green, after being revamped with energy-efficient lights.
The new 6ft (1.8m) ball, weighing about 1,100lbs (500kg), is covered with 9,576 light-emitting diodes that use the same amount of electricity as 10 toasters.
The LEDs are more than twice as bright [...]
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Children in Need is a great institution in the British calendar and this year was no less so. It is amazing to hear of the generosity of some people:
A Led Zeppelin fan has paid £83,000 for two tickets to the rock band’s reunion concert, as part of an auction for the BBC’s Children in Need. [...]
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The BBC are reporting how the Church of England has declared organ donation to be a Christian duty, in keeping with giving oneself and one’s possessions freely. Body parts should not be mistaken for the person themselves, and the best way to treat them reverently is to use them to heal others, the Church [...]
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