Beauty for Ashes

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

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

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”.

Israel - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47876539

 Australia – Oldest woman in Australia - https://www.scotsman.com/news/eat-chocolate-and-drink-whisky-scottish-woman-becomes-oldest-person-in-australia-1-4899778?utm_campaign=The%20Scotsman%20-%20Daily%20RSS&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=71373801&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8qsxYTE_lzbQrIg4Q60vtwNZ8FKNDAlDGshWsNQDkUak99tBtEJP862uIbDBz2oPVGmZ41OLbH-EwFc3wHSrmo6k8XH_PFfnjGKcNJhlsoyx6ZsB0&_hsmi=71373801 

Vegan attacks - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/who-will-help-us-protect-our-farms-and-families/news-story/e8d0802b4cb5c23240c6cc190eb81d7d?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

~Facebook ban Conference on Christian Persecution - https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/04/why-is-facebook-censoring-a-conference-on-christianity-and-religious-freedom/?fbclid=IwAR0Xo2OBo1-mf142l2LzfxqoULU2IPgXIywbimzwLfVsW8GrxtBOAnXORIg 

Married at First Sight – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ6f9Ipzv7k

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/married-at-first-sight-2019-a-ratings-winner-for-channel-9/news-story/158c338cd60df63dbf9790e7914b6713?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

`3) China – Harvesting organs – https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-world-cant-ignore-the-accusations-that-china-has-forcibly-harvested-organs/ 

The Bible in China - https://scottishbiblesociety.org/2019/04/100-years-of-the-chinese-union-version-cuv-bible/

https://www.christian.org.uk/news/chinese-govt-offers-financial-reward-for-turning-in-christians/?e050419

China – https://www.christian.org.uk/news/chinese-govt-offers-financial-reward-for-turning-in-christians/?e050419

4) Greece – 3 person baby - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47889387

5) Export Abortion - https://spuc.org.uk/latest-news/31-latest-news/13839-uk-govt-gives-42-million-to-marie-stopes-and-ippf-for-overseas-abortions?fbclid=IwAR0bY-sw05pA-O5BL8acAx7_RgH13zcTfPXvALnBqx_Y8SvBkRH4-atr1pc

6) Change in divorce law – Baroness Fiona Shackleton – BBC Radio 4 The World at 1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003zv4  Right at the beginning -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47860144

7) UK – Brexit extension - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47889404 

8) Queens University and Union – https://theweeflea.com/2019/04/10/queens-intolerance/ 

9) Brainwashing Teachers https://quillette.com/2019/04/05/what-they-dont-teach-you-at-the-university-of-washingtons-ed-school/ 

Joan Macalpine - https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/joan-mcalpine-defies-bullies-in-sex-and-gender-dispute-1-4903317?utm_campaign=The%20Scotsman%20-%20Daily%20RSS&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=71519885&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CxY5kIYnPSSQPTQEIesos-kxT-Q2gL9YFQoFv250BTyE6qf0GruOaJVWlnZ8t2Me3boHgGT1PdSabR-inT5zRB0aXyuVCO9v23Nui8GvvZGho4LQ&_hsmi=71519885 

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/it-is-now-transphobic-to-report-doctors-fears-about-trans-childrens-health/ 

Parents in Revolt -https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ce98623c-5898-11e9-a28c-4153b1332dc6

10) Roger Scruton - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47880669

11) Pastors Shoes – Introduce it with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww

https://www.christianpost.com/news/preachernsneakers-on-instagram-celebrity-pastors-in-pricey-shoes-raises-stewardship-questions.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=43f7f2afee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_08_04_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-43f7f2afee-2509241

12) Cultural Marxism - https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/live-marxs-world-now/

Quote of the week:

Robin Aitken – “Without an understanding of its guiding philosophy we are in dangr of being led blindfold into a way of thinking we have not freely chosen, but have merely absorbed”   The Noble Liar

1) Ukraine -  https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/in-ukraines-presidential-elections-life-is-imitating-netflix/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47763176

2) Theybies and Childism -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlKRfy66Tw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0OhtIVtv0Uauwllz-ZeW375DJZGcfA1DQtNeRQkOSkdjLYkk9a3wFQ72s:25  

https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/03/mother-sister-brother-produce-a-baby/?fbclid=IwAR1oPIHKsLlFxyZOlnURC_7qq6elrFUYIkCWwSrq-YfdSbFegDQUK2EMsl8 

https://www.christianpost.com/news/crucifix-removed-from-montreal-city-council-to-reaffirm-secular-character.html

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/court-orders-christian-to-pay-55000-to-trans-politician-for-calling-him-biological-male

3) Moral Maze – Puritanism –- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003jj5 

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17538407.bbc-question-time-defends-lgbt-morality-debate/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0003mp9/question-time-2019-28032019

Coeercice and Controlling behaviour - https://twitter.com/scotgov/status/1112655845525995520?s=12

5) New Zealand

- https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/is-new-zealand-really-such-a-tolerant-country/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The%20best%20of%20Coffee%20House%3A%2030%20March&utm_campaign=Best_of_Coffee_House

 6) Unplanned - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-trailer-released-for-unplanned-movie-about-abby-johnsons-pro-life-con?utm_content=buffer3397e&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM&fbclid=IwAR1kc2QVFi3vINN5x-XGJoQ7ZgkWjBDvdzgK0BTjQLTz3fTcpyslOAAqHxc

7) Restriction on science –

- https://quillette.com/2019/04/01/activists-must-stop-harassing-scientists/

Pseudo Science - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/lying-with-science-a-guide-to-myth-debunking/ 

8) Melvin Bragg – Unbelievable – https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Why-William-Tyndale-s-Bible-changed-the-world-Melvyn-Bragg-and-Ben-Virgo?fbclid=IwAR1gG6Qfm2TMYv5kcR2IEIwV3nsY396Ettlqtur1P6O41RhIfVW9x4CeW7o

9) Difference between Americans and British – the Cure - https://twitter.com/stormhuntley/status/1112344763049615361?s=12 

“Road unsafe when this sign is under water” (US sign). 

Robin Aitken – The Noble Liar – “ our ruling elite in Britain– the politicians, lawyers, academics and media people – view the current state of affairs as a positive thing;”we have banished superstition”, they say, rejoicing at the thought; but there remains a sceptical minority who look at the society brought into being by this type of thinking and see little to admire. The liberal hegemony has created an unhappy society which doesn’t really know what it believes in. And whether you are a supporter of the current orthodoxy or not, here is one thing you can rely on: it is not permanent. The qualities that make Christianity a force to be reckoned with– the truth that wins human hearts and compels belief – will not change, and will go on winning converts to its banner. In the coming years, who is to say whether the old beliefs will not triumph again over the arid fictions of our current noble lie?”

New Zealand Mosque – https://twitter.com/johnpaulpagano/status/1110579872932552706?s=12

What is Islamaphobia - https://www.christianconcern.com/our-issues/islam/what-is-islamophobia

Jordan Peterson

https://theweeflea.com/2019/03/26/letter-to-the-vice-chancellor-of-the-university-of-cambridge-re-jordan-peterson/

China and the Church

 Eu and the Internet - https://capx.co/the-eus-censorious-copyright-directive-will-create-two-internets/

 China and AI technology - https://www.facebook.com/188625661189259/posts/2377454685639668/

  The Mueller inquiry and Justin Smollet - https://www.christianpost.com/news/russia-investigation-complete-mueller-attends-same-church-trump-attended-last-week.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=99cad22efc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_25_04_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-99cad22efc-2509241

Treatment of the elderly in the Netherlands - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dutch-legislator-wants-doctors-to-be-able-to-deny-surgeries-to-patients-older-than-70?utm_content=buffere5520&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM&fbclid=IwAR2XobCBPSLjBHBaVmHo_cd50jXYBf5gbblUt2anURKsWZmAqIFgvp2mM6w

BMA and Assisted dying - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47641766

 Glasgow Uni – Life https://adfinternational.org/news/freedom-of-speech-upheld-at-glasgow-university-following-legal-challenge/

Rape Crisis centre in Canada defunded - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/rape-crisis-centres-funding-axed-over-refusal-to-accommodate-men/?fbclid=IwAR3fYWlHhpCfzRQdu_cn7HgIHI9gNlDWMylZmrczidt6v_zCxGx5xN4lcmc

 Trans Man warns of dangers  - https://www.christianpost.com/news/first-man-recognized-as-nonbinary-in-us-regrets-taking-hormones-warns-against-trans-sham.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=af86927276-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_14_04_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-af86927276-2509241

 Chick Fil –A - https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/chick-fil-a-banned-san-antonio-airport-legacy-lgbtq-behavior-report

United Airlines - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/united-airlines-transgender-non-binary-gender?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeed&ref=bffbbuzzfeed&fbclid=IwAR1QSYYY946b36nq1WMoivEoUaD2VZVN-G59dRhfwj3XvZQyCEDiJ95RAwo

 Scott Walker - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6846697/Scott-Walker-star-Walker-Brothers-dies-aged-76.html?ico=pushly-notifcation-small

Decline of church in the US - https://www.christianpost.com/news/religious-nones-now-as-big-as-evangelicals-in-the-us-new-data-shows.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=ff1766997d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_21_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-ff1766997d-2509241

  Ricky Gervais -  

https://theweeflea.com/2017/02/03/ricky-gervais-v-stephen-colbert-the-real-answers-an-open-letter/

“Heaven is a fairy story told for people afraid of the dark”

Stephen Hawking

“Atheism is a fairy story for those afraid of the light” John Lennox

• Cyclone in Mozambique – Zimbabwe and Malawi –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47637166 

• New Zealand Mosque Shootings – Dutch and African killings.

https://theweeflea.com/2019/03/18/christchurch-commentaries/

Nicola Sturgeon - https://twitter.com/radioclydenews/status/1106580389877989376?s=12

https://www.christianpost.com/news/at-least-32-christians-killed-as-mob-burns-homes-church-in-nigeria.html

Brendan O’Neil - https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1107982933338583040?s=12

Erodgan - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/20/turkeys-president-sparks-diplomatic-row-warning-anti-muslim/?hootPostID=000b4a33c965356d65acfc4c0990327c

• Brexit

 https://theweeflea.com/2019/03/21/the-who-bercow-the-snp-socialists-greeks-the-swiss-dentists-historians-and-christ-on-brexit-confusion/

• Iranian Christian Refused Asylum

https://archbishopcranmer.com/home-office-refuses-asylum-to-iranian-christian-convert-quoting-violence-in-the-bible-as-evidence-of-bogus-claim/

• British Journalist Questioned for Misgendering

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/the-journalist-investigated-by-police-for-using-the-wrong-pronouns/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeJlv62nig

• British MP condemns parents who don’t want LGBT indoctrination 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6815349/amp/Girl-15-taken-family-care-parents-didnt-want-changing-sex.html?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-appoints-first-national-adviser-for-lgbt-health

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17514173.oxford-lgbt-leader-questioning-students-sexuality-is-abuse/

 Also the name Donald....and Lucifer..

Regensburg and Trip Advisor. 

Kentucky and Abortion.

7) Out of the Ashes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_YSZyhRv5s 

“If you want me to stick my neck out, I think I would say that if the Church were officially to approve homosexual partnerships as a legitimate alternative to hetrosexual marriage, this so far diverges from biblical sexual ethics that I would find it exceedingly difficult to stay. I might want to stay on and fight a few more years, but if they persisted I would have to leave” (John Stott, Balanced Christianity p.61)

The EU Debacle - and Cromwell  

2) Michael Jackson - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/michael-jackson-sexual-abuse-media-coverage_n_5c7af551e4b0e1f776521c8e?guccounter=1

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/leaving-neverland-michael-jackson-and-me/on-demand/63905-001

 David Steel and Cyril Smith . http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/lord-steele-admits-that-former-rochdale-mp-cyril-smith-confessed-to-him-that-child-abuse-allegations-were-true/ 

3) Transmania -  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791187/Now-girl-gymnasts-share-changing-rooms-boys-identify-female.html

4) Sex Education 

5) The Herald –  

6) China - https://www.christianpost.com/news/china-vows-to-rid-christianity-of-western-influence-one-more-christian-one-less-chinese.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=6d806011ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_13_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-6d806011ec-2509241

 Chinese Church blown up - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-christianity-religion-crackdown-megachurch-chinaaid-golden-lampstand-church-linfen-communist-a8156031.html

7) Dutch Church – SSM - https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/dutch-reformed-churchs-decision-not-to-recognise-same-sex-unions-overturned-19728977?fbclid=IwAR3U37673SCK8r_bCXzAjNQZtdqwaIjI1uE4Ph_kWQWwaGO1IDQIBteqeOg

8) Brendan O’Neill – Knife Crime - 

9) RoboDoc - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/familys-fury-as-robodoc-told-patient-he-had-just-days-left-to-live/news-story/6768993bb01f96f2bd9ea5e3a20b10cd?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47510038?ns_source=twitter&ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews

10) Australian use of technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlBByFWTf4

If we abandon God, and the ethical imperatives that proceed from that, we are in danger of ending up in an amoral morass, where the sort of technocratic debates about whether certain human beings should be regarded as sharing a common humanity, like the Soviet purges of "enemies of the people" or the Nazi’s belief in the expendability of certain races, most particularly Jews, become possible. You then land in an amoral jungle, animated only by some mud- begotten social Darwinianism. This is because there was no longer a guiding moral authority. These regimes could "reason" their way to any conclusion." (Kevin Rudd – page 217). God is Good for You.

Knife Crime – https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/1036030733187727/

 2) Birmingham Parents –

• https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/06/those-birmingham-parents-are-right/

3)Trudeau downfall – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/02/28/downfall-justin-trudeau/

4) Q and A Australia –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmNSlF7lcaw 

5) Transgender athletes – Sharon Davies - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/47438175?ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbc_match_of_the_day&fbclid=IwAR0DX_8Ib0RM8YKH5PmSKPgCP-Ocs38ClsdF74MxYLWu1v8EC8VDxZ6HYlA 

https://order-order.com/2019/02/28/twitter-bars-suzanne-evans-saying-trans-woman-wasnt-ladylike/ 

6) China and KFC - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/05/asia/kfc-china-lei-feng-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2019-03-06T09%3A44%3A03&utm_term=link

7) Birthstrike - https://twitter.com/victorialive/status/1102626925158252544?s=12 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46118103

 8) Andre Previn - https://twitter.com/andrewlane1962/status/1101182707739041793?s=12

Quote of the Week - “At the beginning of time, according to the great Western tradition, the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. It is axiomatic, within that tradition, that man and woman alike are made in the image of that God. We also transform chaos into Being, through speech. We transform the manifold possibilities of the future into the actualities of past and present. To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being. Truth builds edifices that can stand a thousand years. Truth feeds and clothes the poor, and makes nations wealthy and safe. Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word, so that he can become a partner, rather than an enemy. Truth makes the past truly past, and makes the best of the future’s possibilities. Truth is the ultimate, inexhaustible natural resource. It’s the light in the darkness. See the truth. Tell the truth>’ Jordan Peterson

1) United Methodists Defend Biblical Teaching  

https://juicyecumenism.com/2019/02/23/african-united-methodists-wont-trade-bible-for-dollars/

2) India and Pakistan 

3) Brexit betrayal –

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/jeremy-corbyns-brexit-betrayal-is-complete/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Evening%20_Blend_26022019&utm_campaign=Evening_Blend 

4) Shamima Begum –

5) Hate Speech -

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/02/25/gay-rights-leader-accused-burning-down-home/2816523002/

https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1100093417420476416?s=12

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/the-mocker/the-mocker-jussie-smollett-case-elitist-response-play-to-victimhood-mentality/news-story/bd99feec292a7c815aa5428085e7ec06?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines 

6)  George Pell -  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-47366113?ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=newsdaily_newsletter&ns_campaign=NEWS_NLB_WK09_Tues_26_February&ns_linkname=bbcnews_pell_newsworld_pell&ns_fee=0 

7) Gender issues…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47282724?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1diskzKASmL7qPwjFLP_a75tw4TAMFcd8EF46ZDgaivzG14c13m7ebb7A

http://archbishopcranmer.com/faith-sexuality-conversion-therapy-research/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/23/child-transgender-service-governor-quits-chaos

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/university-clubs-must-fall-in-line-on-gender/news-story/b9e5f427bc804fd47f696c4885b39df3?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45329067   

https://www.christianpost.com/news/ontario-passes-law-government-seize-children-parents-oppose-gender-transition-186332/?fbclid=IwAR3znvjuXqAWgcn0kvgjiPLB8t2VH4gwf81c-l4LWELjSh364C6I8SvAEaA

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

8) Abortion - https://www.christianpost.com/news/shocking-inhumane-extreme-senate-democrats-block-bill-to-protect-babies-born-alive.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=a4f05959e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_26_06_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-a4f05959e7-2509241

9) Culture - 

http://theconservative.online/article/scottish_musical_fascists 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/25/snake-plane-australia-scotland-shoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions ... Why do people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? … Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us to where we can never return.”

—Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), pp. 40-41.

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

Peter Took – The Monkees.