Maggy Whitehouse
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I'm reading a book by Neil Postman, called Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's a bit of an eye-opener... I've suspected this for a while but it's still chilling to read about it. We spent decades fearing 1984 - George Orwell's book about control and Big Brother and, when...
When you're a vicar, you get used to the feeling that every time you walk into a room an elephant walks in with you. I'm used to mine now, he's called Gordon and he drinks. It's probably the embarrassment of the company he keeps. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that...
The first time my mother met my bishop, he was wearing his pyjamas and having a fag in the garden. I should emphasise here for my American friends that ‘having a fag’ in the UK means ‘smoking a cigarette,’ but from my mother’s reaction it could easily have been the...
One of my jobs as a minister and a prosperity teacher is to make sense of that rather strange book, the Bible. At first glance it (particularly the Old Testament) is a minefield of a judgemental God and horrible happenings. But the Bible is the written document of an...