Beauty for Ashes

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January 14, 2017 Quantum 95 – Ten ‘Prophecies’ for the Church in 2017
Dramatically increasing his stoning prospects, David Robertson doubles-down on the prophecies for 2017. This week's it's the prospects for the Church in the West;
Mainstream decline.
Post-modern evangelicals.
American charismatic next big thing.
Creflo Dollar won't be back.
Greater unity.
Salt and light in the public square.
The Reformation.
US Evangelicals split over Donald Trump
Reaching the poor.
Africa and Asia.

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TheWeeFlea.com – Ten Prophecies re the Church in 2017
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January 06, 2017 Ten ‘Prophecies’ for Society/Culture in 2017 | Q94
David Robertson is neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but as an observer of culture and society he gives ten suggestions that might be the main issues in this coming year; The Queen, Israel, Brexit, the War against Humanity, Islam and Islamophobia, Donald Trump, British Politics, Celebrities, Automation and Censorship.

Next week, it's the turn of the Church in 2017.

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TheWeeFlea.com - Ten ‘Prophecies’ for Society/Culture in 2017
19 min
January 06, 2017 Quantum 94 – Ten ‘Prophecies’ for Society/Culture in 2017
David Robertson is neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but as an observer of culture and society he gives ten suggestions that might be the main issues in this coming year; The Queen, Israel, Brexit, the War against Humanity, Islam and Islamophobia, Donald Trump, British Politics, Celebrities, Automation and Censorship.

Next week, it's the turn of the Church in 2017.

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TheWeeFlea.com - Ten ‘Prophecies’ for Society/Culture in 2017
19 min
December 22, 2016 Merry Christmas | Q93
A wee Christmas message from David Robertson and Andy Bannister.
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Rebuild Haiti - An EP of Christmas SongsHelp Mission International reach out to Haiti this Christmas by downloading their EP of songs by Scottish singer/songwriters David Henderson, Lins Honeyman and Allan McKinlay. Your donations - through Mission International - will help alleviate the poverty faced by so many in the amazing country that is Haiti.
https://rebuildhaiti.bandcamp.com/

SHORT/ANSWERS on Christmas.05 | Is belief in God just like belief in Santa Claus?
06 | What's all the fuss about Christmas?
10 min
December 22, 2016 Quantum 93 – Merry Christmas
A wee Christmas message from David Robertson and Andy Bannister.
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Rebuild Haiti - An EP of Christmas Songs
Help Mission International reach out to Haiti this Christmas by downloading their EP of songs by Scottish singer/songwriters David Henderson, Lins Honeyman and Allan McKinlay. Your donations - through Mission International - will help alleviate the poverty faced by so many in the amazing country that is Haiti.
https://rebuildhaiti.bandcamp.com/

SHORT/ANSWERS on Christmas.
05 | Is belief in God just like belief in Santa Claus?
06 | What's all the fuss about Christmas?
10 min
December 19, 2016 Puberty Blockers, Universities and Secular Swimming Pools | Q92
This week, in the last Quantum for 2016, David Robertson looks at some of the world view messages that we're hearing (or not hearing) being expressed through the media.

1) Gender / Transgender Update.
Christian Institute - 9-year-old given puberty blockers after watching CBBC programme

BBC - Transgender child: The boy putting his female puberty on hold

The Times - 'He' and 'she' are now 'ze' at Oxford

BBC - Malta bans 'gay cure' conversion therapy

Council of Europe - The Istanbul Convention

2) University and Education

"Social constructionism is the doctrine that all human roles are socially constructed. They’re detached from the underlying biology and from the underlying objective world."
Dr Jordan Petersen

C2C Journal - ‘We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson

National Post - Conrad Black: Jordan Peterson speaks for those of us that refuse to follow the ‘great liberal death wish’

Herald Scotland - Pro-life students from Strathclyde University banned from becoming an official club

The Guardian - Graduate sues Oxford University for £1m over his failure to get a first

Spiked Online - There's more to university than getting a good job

3) Secular swimming pools

BBC - Funds raised to open pool in Lewis on Sabbath
National Secular Society - Sabbath swimming campaign succeeds, thanks to islanders and secularists
SPIN ALERT - Of course, another way of looking at this story is that, since the Indiegogo 60 day crowdfunding campaign was about to expire without meeting its fundraising pledge target, the 'All-or-Nothing' campaign would have collapsed without raising a penny unless the NSS had stepped in at the end to fund 20% themselves.
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of old devotees, that they believed without knowing why they believed. But the moderns believe without knowing what they believe - and without even knowing that they do believe it. Their freedom consists in first freely assuming a creed, and then freely forgetting that they are assuming it. In short, they have always an unconscious dogma; and an unconscious dogma is the definition of a prejudice."
G.K. Chesterton, from an article in the Illustrated London News, March 15, 1919.

4) Conflict in Syria - Alleppo.

5) Deaths.

New York Times - John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95.

BBC - Weatherman Ian McCaskill dies, aged 78

Greg Lake
23 min
December 19, 2016 Quantum 92 – Puberty Blockers, Universities and Secular Swimming Pools
So many people say, "Oh, you Christians. We need empirical evidence. We need it scientifically based." We're being sold a world view right now, whether it's on gender identity, transgender or anything else, which has got nothing to do with science and has got everything to do with a social construct. It's ignoring the biology and it's ignoring the objective world.
This week, in the last Quantum for 2016, David Robertson looks at some of the world view messages that we're hearing (or not hearing) being expressed through the media.

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1) Gender / Transgender Update.
Christian Institute - 9-year-old given puberty blockers after watching CBBC programme
BBC - Transgender child: The boy putting his female puberty on hold
The Times - 'He' and 'she' are now 'ze' at Oxford
BBC - Malta bans 'gay cure' conversion therapy
Council of Europe - The Istanbul Convention
2) University and Education

"Social constructionism is the doctrine that all human roles are socially constructed. They’re detached from the underlying biology and from the underlying objective world."
Dr Jordan Petersen
C2C Journal - ‘We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson
National Post - Conrad Black: Jordan Peterson speaks for those of us that refuse to follow the ‘great liberal death wish’
Herald Scotland - Pro-life students from Strathclyde University banned from becoming an official club
The Guardian - Graduate sues Oxford University for £1m over his failure to get a first
Spiked Online - There's more to university than getting a good job
3) Secular swimming pools

BBC - Funds raised to open pool in Lewis on Sabbath
National Secular Society - Sabbath swimming campaign succeeds, thanks to islanders and secularists
SPIN ALERT - Of course, another way of looking at this story is that, since the Indiegogo 60 day crowdfunding campaign was about to expire without meeting its fundraising pledge target, the 'All-or-Nothing' campaign would have collapsed without raising a penny unless the NSS had stepped in at the end to fund 20% themselves.
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of old devotees, that they believed without knowing why they believed. But the moderns believe without knowing what they believe - and without even knowing ...
23 min
December 08, 2016 The Transgender 'Debate' in the UK Parliament | Q91
In the beginning God made them male and female and at the end the British Parliament decided that they were not. David Robertson reflects on the recent Transgender Equality debate in the House of Commons, the potential impact of people being able to change their legal sex by self declaration and the risks of extending the protection given to “gender reassignment” under our equalities legislation to “gender identity.”
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TheWeeFlea.com - The Tyranny of the Progressives – Another Step Backwards

Hansard - Transgender Equality Debate - 1 Dec 2016

New Statesman - What's missing from the transgender debate? Any discussion of male violence

Pink News - Labour MP Caroline Flint claims trans-friendly toilets are dangerous for women

BBC - Transgender child: The boy putting his female puberty on hold

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Iain Craig - So full and yet so foolish (2016)
19 min
December 08, 2016 Quantum 91 – The Transgender Equality ‘Debate’ in the UK Parliament
In the beginning God made them male and female and at the end the British Parliament decided that they were not. David Robertson reflects on the recent Transgender Equality debate in the House of Commons, the potential impact of people being able to change their legal sex by self declaration and the risks of extending the protection given to “gender reassignment” under our equalities legislation to “gender identity.”
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TheWeeFlea.com - The Tyranny of the Progressives – Another Step Backwards

Hansard - Transgender Equality Debate - 1 Dec 2016

New Statesman - What's missing from the transgender debate? Any discussion of male violence

Pink News - Labour MP Caroline Flint claims trans-friendly toilets are dangerous for women

BBC - Transgender child: The boy putting his female puberty on hold

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Iain Craig - So full and yet so foolish (2016)
19 min
December 08, 2016 The Transgender ‘Debate’ in the UK Parliament | Q91
In the beginning God made them male and female and at the end the British Parliament decided that they were not. David Robertson reflects on the recent Transgender Equality debate in the House of Commons, the potential impact of people being able to change their legal sex by self declaration and the risks of extending the protection given to “gender reassignment” under our equalities legislation to “gender identity.”

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TheWeeFlea.com - The Tyranny of the Progressives – Another Step Backwards

Hansard - Transgender Equality Debate - 1 Dec 2016

New Statesman - What's missing from the transgender debate? Any discussion of male violence

Pink News - Labour MP Caroline Flint claims trans-friendly toilets are dangerous for women

BBC - Transgender child: The boy putting his female puberty on hold

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Iain Craig - So full and yet so foolish (2016)

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David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective - this podcast was known as Quantum of the Wee Flea. Now it has been turned into a radio programme…