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Shoals’ Top 500 Songs

Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This was in one of our local weeklies. It’s a listing of the top 500 songs associated with the Shoals area, some very cool stuff on it.
A few from the list:
6. ARETHA FRANKLIN – Respect
Recorded in New York with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
26. ROLLING STONES – Brown Sugar
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
37. [...]

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CHAP. VIII. The Parson on Sundays.

Posted in George Herbert, Pastoring on May 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »

THe Country Parson, as soon as he awakes on Sunday morning, presently falls to work. and seems to himselfe so as a Market-man is, when the Market day comes, or a shopkeeper, when customers use to come in. His thoughts are full of making the best of the day, [...]

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Huge Hog

Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Saw this on the news. 

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Day 8: Glasgow/ Edinburgh

Posted in Travel on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Back in Leith now. Finished up my things in Glasgow and had lunch with my supervisor. I’ve checked in at the Crioch guest house run by a nice couple (he’s a Linux user as well). Had steak pie for supper with at treat — a deep fried Mars bar. I had [...]

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Day 7: Glasgow

Posted in Travel on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Spent all day at the Uni. Met with my PhD supervisor this morning then had lunch with my friend Allan. He’s working on a PhD in geography but it deals with Church History here in Glasgow. Great to see them. Finished up the day with a Haggis dinner at blas.
Finished my [...]

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Day 6: Glasgow

Posted in Travel on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Got a good night’s rest last night. After breakfast I headed down Byre’s Road to the Botanic Gardens. Flowers were nice and they have finished Kibble Palace (a greenhouse there) it is beautiful in there: lots of plants, statues and a gold fish pond.
I went to worship at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church. [...]

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Day 5: Glasgow

Posted in Travel on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Arrived in Glasgow this morning.  Felt surreal to walk in the neighbourhood we lived in.  I worked in the library for a while getting all my crucial copying done and then checked into the Alamo Guest House.  It’s just across from Kelvingrove park where I used to take my daughter to play and feed ducks [...]

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Athanasius at Christ and Covenant

Posted in Resources, Theology on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A blogger I just discovered a couple of weeks ago has this about Athanasius’ on the Incarnation.  He mentions Athanasius’ continual arguments from Scripture.  That’s something I had noticed in my thinking through the place of tradition in Christian theology.  While I’m by no means a patristics scholar, in my casual readings through them I’ve [...]

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Day 4: Edinburgh

Posted in Travel on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Finished today at the National Library, I’ll be heading for Glasgow tomorrow. It’ll be nice to see familiar faces and be back where we lived for awhile.
Another exciting day of looking at old books. I did pick up some fish and chips for supper and snapped a few shots on the way home.
Arthur’s [...]

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Day 3: Edinburgh

Posted in Travel on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Well more of the National Library of Scotland.  I overslept and headed straight for the library and spent all day there again.  I did take time to pop by Argos for an alarm clock.  I walked back to Leith and took a few photos on the way.  BTW some of the shots on flickr have [...]

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