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| End the Week with CME - November 20, 2009 | 20th Nov 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Long before Advent the Christmas decorations are in the shops and Christmas music fills the loudspeakers as you trundle your trolley round Tesco's. Sometimes it feels like we're on an everlasting merry-go-round. Here we are, doing the same as we did last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, too... These feelings beg the question of purpose, both for each of us as individuals and also for the wider world. Are we going anywhere? Or do we simply go round like hamsters on a huge wheel, gradually declining? (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - November 13, 2009 | 13th Nov 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Did you know that, in general, the tallest candidate always wins the American Presidential election? Since 1928 only Nixon, Carter, and George W. Bush have beaten taller candidates, and in 2000 Bush probably didn't actually beat the Al Gore anyway! It's perhaps no accident that this period coincides with the media age, when the looks of a leader make a big difference. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - November 6, 2009 | 6th Nov 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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What led to Jesus' death? The Gospel of Mark suggests that the key accusation against him at his trial was that he had prophesied the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (Mark 14.58; see also John 2.19-21). His actions in the cleansing of the Temple prophetically enacted a time when sacrifices would cease (Mark 11.15-18; see also John 2.13-17). His perceived threat to the heart of Jewish faith inevitably set him on a collision course with the Temple authorities and therefore the Roman authorities who stood behind them too. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - October 23, 2009 | 23rd Oct 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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The ancient symbol used for John's Gospel is an eagle, rising high and seeing far. Richard Burridge helpfully explains the structure of John's Gospel using this symbol. It is, he writes, 'like an eagle, with the two main sections being the “wings” on which it flies, separated by a thin body of material in between with the prologue and appendix forming extensions on the wingtips' (Four Gospels, One Jesus, SPCK 1994, p.137). The two wings represent the so-called 'Book of Signs' (John 1.19-10.42) which takes up the first half of the Gospel, and the 'Book of Glory' (John 12.11-20.31) which narrates Jesus passion. John 11 forms, in this analysis, the body of the eagle, the pivot on which the whole story of Jesus turns. And John 11 offers a story about new life out of death, the climax of Jesus' ministry and the greatest sign or miracle of them all: the raising of Lazarus. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - October 16, 2009 | 16th Oct 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Have you come across 'spoiler alerts'? You'll find them when the plot of a film or book is discussed on the internet and they're there in case you haven't yet seen the film or read the book in question, because what is written next may spoil your enjoyment if you read it next. So here's a spoiler alert, because I want to talk for a while about Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, last Spring's Oscar-winning film set in India. (more...) |
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