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  • Always Banging on About Sex image

    Always Banging on About Sex

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 25 September 2015   Two posts that have caught my eye today. Read more
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    Old Buildings, New Life

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 22 September 2015   Three years ago I posted about the way in which my thinking on church buildings was shifting. From a utilitarian ‘new church’ approach of favouring warehouses to... Read more
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    In Praise of Parliament

    Matthew Hosier  |  Sat 12 September 2015   Very often the politics and Parliament of the United Kingdom are derided as facile, ineffective and out of touch. Politicians as a body fail to command much respect and... Read more
  • From 9/11 to 4,000,000 Displaced Syrians image

    From 9/11 to 4,000,000 Displaced Syrians

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 11 September 2015   Fourteen years ago today our church administrative assistant told me that a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center in New York. My initial response was to be... Read more
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    Tomorrow in Parliament

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 10 September 2015   Tomorrow the House of Commons will debate the Assisted Dying Bill. This is an important moment, and if you are a UK citizen and have not yet contacted your MP on the... Read more
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    Honouring the Speaker

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 8 September 2015   A few days ago Andrew tweeted the following: Read more
  • Refugees, Migrants, and the New Covenant image

    Refugees, Migrants, and the New Covenant

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 4 September 2015   What to do about the migrant crisis? Read more
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    Still an issue…

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 3 September 2015   Following Andrew's entertaining list of paedo/credo-baptisimal thoughts yesterday, the ninth Planned Parenthood video dropped into my home page. The juxtaposition of... Read more
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    Total Depravity and the Glory of Flight

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 27 August 2015   Last weekend three-quarters of a million people visited my town for the Bournemouth Air Festival. Air festivals are popular, though last weekend was overshadowed by the... Read more
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    Abortion is Still an Issue

    Matthew Hosier  |  Wed 26 August 2015   A danger with the weekly releases by the Center for Medical Progress of videos exposing the horrors of the abortion industry is that it can quickly become old news. Each... Read more