It rained this morning for the first time in a while. The world was soft and grey. Mandy, Mr Zee and the kids were in reception when I arrived. Mr Zee was in his full brown as peat regalia - mask too - and standing in his characteristic legs astride, taller than a tree posture. He

The DOTC ordered the grounding of Sulpicio Lines floating marine assets. Congratulations for that.  Wow!  As we were saying about two days ago, the seaworthiness of the assets of shipping companies need to be thoroughly checked.  But the best manner to handle this is to form a safety agency as they are doing in the rest

Averaging well over 100 shows per year, ‘Foreign Beggars’ are one of the most prolific and versatile Hip Hop outfits to emerge from the UK. Consisting of MC’s Metropolis and Orifice Vulgatron, Producer Dag Nabbit, Human Beat boxer Shlomo and DJ Nonames. With roots ranging from jazz and classical training, to years of writing recording and

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes “…. Or a beggar in India ” ( @4:58 mins), The very words that struck me like a bolt and the words that really suck. Well the weird words came from a “child” who addressed a UN meeting on world environment issues. It was coincidence that made

Continuing the Conversation recaps some things we talked about on Sunday and invites continued engagement with the conversation.  Hopefully, it’s one more avenue for Beggar’s people to keep engaging as well as an invitation for folks not with us on Sunday to join in. Our conversation Sunday centered on the idea of engaging Scripture as a

Continuing the Conversation recaps some things we talked about on Sunday and invites continued engagement with the conversation.  Hopefully, it’s one more avenue for Beggar’s people to keep engaging as well as an invitation for folks not with us on Sunday to join in. Sunday we continued discussing who we are as God’s church by examining

From Rodney Stark’s Discovering God: “The promise of ‘going to heaven’ was given immense credibility by the fact that Christians enjoyed a substantially superior quality of life here and now, a fact that was highly visible to outsiders.” “Christian congregations used their immense amount of social energy to improve the daily lives of their members.  It has

Continuing the Conversation recaps some things we talked about on Sunday and invites continued engagement with the conversation.  Hopefully, it’s one more avenue for Beggar’s people to keep engaging as well as an invitation for folks not with us on Sunday to join in. Last night we gave an extensive look at the idea of corporate

Year end top 10 lists are so arbitrary and so opinionated. I think that’s what I like about them. What puts those last 10 albums among the echelon of other albums we listened to in 2007? How they can be both similar and completely different from listeners within a field of music? It

For symmetry, Last.fm tells me the bands I listened to over the year. I like this list because it not only shows just releases that came out in 2007 but what captured my heart. Often times, a band comes out with an album that led me to a prior release that I connected with more