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mediatree: your next book #3 - speaking of Jesus

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Monday, 27 August 2012. Your next book #3 - speaking of Jesus. Four weeks ago, I wrote the first draft of a review for the next entry in this 'your next book' series. Even compared to the usual mediocrity, it was terrible. Last week, I tried again, and failed again. So now, I'll must admit defeat. The book in question is Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism. On one occasion, I was moved to tears by relief and realisation. Reading this book was as if Medearis lunged inside my soul and successfully...

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mediatree: your next book #1 - the white spider

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012. Your next book #1 - the white spider. WHY DO PEOPLE seek to conquer? Is it for fame or money? Is it a desire to get one over on nature? Or is there simply an inherent need in all of us to set goals and achieve them? For me, this was the central theme of Heinrich Harrer's. Classic non-fiction text, The White Spider. In 1938, Harrer was one of four men who became the first team to climb the North Face of the Eiger. Watch this space for that one.). The North Face of the Eiger. If du...

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mediatree: thorny topics

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Friday, 2 March 2012. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. There's a blog post which will land here at the start of next week which will return us to the conversation about the desire to write. I have to admit, that's a desire which is, in a way, being heavily slaked at the moment. Like all folk who serve with the backing of others, we undertook to frequently report back throughout our year living and working in Niger. I'll start from another angle. There's a political metaphor there if you happen to be ...

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mediatree: get a grip

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Thursday, 3 November 2011. Just a quick plug/review of a short book I recently picked up - Get A Grip. Published by the ongoing BibleFresh initiative, as a spin-off of a current speaking tour they have travelling Great Britain. Before purchasing, I asked Krish Kandiah. Whether he thought the short essays were able to tackle subjects like genocide and corporal punishment. 'Pithy but chunky,'. Came the reply. It might sound more like a good soup, but I reckon that's actually a pretty good assessment. Havin...

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mediatree: how to write

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Tuesday, 7 February 2012. Readers of our Niger blog. Might be surprised to know that I feel a certain amount of writer's block at the moment. (On closer inspection, you might realise why I've suddenly converted to photo blogging! It is, however, with some sense of irony that I've realised in the past couple of days that despite now being in a post for the year where writing is a key tenet, my recent attempts are feeling less than satisfying. And The Elements of Style. Recently also opened Lists of Note.

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mediatree: the brothers bloom

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Monday, 26 September 2011. Having watched it a couple of weeks ago and being bowled over by its unexpected brilliance, I had been meaning to write a short post to point interested travellers towards the 2008 film The Brothers Bloom. I sodding loved it, as did my good wife - a rare bit of concurrence in itself, and testament to the work in question, if nothing else. Line of aesthetics, and turned it in to Ocean's 13. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Having recently retreated to his fortress in West Afr...

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mediatree: labels

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Thursday, 20 October 2011. I've a long-running, occasionally dipped-in-to discussion with the man-myth-legend Bob. About the definitions of things. In life, we don't like labels. I think a major reason for this is because the moment we find one that seems to fit us, we invariably then find ten other people, none of whom we would ever want to have anything to do with, who seem to be appropriating the same label. I find one I struggle with the most to be 'evangelical'. Hit up Wikipedia. Well, they're evang...

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mediatree: deserting

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Friday, 7 October 2011. In January, the good Mrs H and I are hoping to head to Niger, West Africa. With the mission agency SIM. Which is all very exciting, if also terrifying in equal abundance. However, we deemed that as people who would wish to read about that thing may not necessarily also wish to have their minds populated with movie trailers, rants, getting @gmsythftw elected, video production commentary, theological rants and journal publishing (their loss) we've set up a new blog elsewhere. Over t...

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mediatree: misdirection

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Thursday, 22 March 2012. So six seasons of The West Wing came to Niger, and have been quite literally the only thing we have watched since. We're now in season 6, so I reckon that places us at about one-and-a-half a day, but in reality Saturday mornings account for a lot of that! But the power cable seemed to have ceased to work. The odd wiggle seemed to cause the blue Power LED to light up, but otherwise, nothing. Panic ensues. The light that indicates that the landing gear is locked didn't go on, whi...