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Jan. 9th, 2009 12:20 pmI meant to link to this when I saw it in the Grauniad (I saw it and thought of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carlanime!): The Rugby Football Union teams up with Mills and Boon to produce ruby themed romance novels. One is going to be called The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin, which is awful even by M&B's standards...
There's going to be an Atheist Thought for the Afternoon on PM, from the bus campaign woman. However, the Controller of R 4 says there are no plans to widen the remit of Thought for the Day to include atheists.
Jane Williams is blogging Acts; quite interesting. (I found this while looking for the Howard Jacobson article on Jesus - the curse and blessing to the Grauniad using a different way to organise the website to the paper. Have apparently been missing out on interesting stuff due to my determination to avoid CiF on issues of faith...
Howard Jacobson on the Jewishness of Jesus. An interesting take on the matter; I was particularly struck by the bit about the resemblance between Jesus' voice and that of God in the Old Testament - And as for "He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it" - here we are back before the jealous, riddling exclusiveness of Yahweh himself.
Finally, a dreadfully tangled tragi-comic (but mostly comic) story of the man who ended up going to his ex's funeral as his son... accompanied by his actual father. As the chap's mother said, it had something rather Alan Bennetish about it. Though it's rather sad that the dead man apparently was never able to tell his family the truth about himself.
carlanime!): The Rugby Football Union teams up with Mills and Boon to produce ruby themed romance novels. One is going to be called The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin, which is awful even by M&B's standards...There's going to be an Atheist Thought for the Afternoon on PM, from the bus campaign woman. However, the Controller of R 4 says there are no plans to widen the remit of Thought for the Day to include atheists.
Jane Williams is blogging Acts; quite interesting. (I found this while looking for the Howard Jacobson article on Jesus - the curse and blessing to the Grauniad using a different way to organise the website to the paper. Have apparently been missing out on interesting stuff due to my determination to avoid CiF on issues of faith...
Howard Jacobson on the Jewishness of Jesus. An interesting take on the matter; I was particularly struck by the bit about the resemblance between Jesus' voice and that of God in the Old Testament - And as for "He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it" - here we are back before the jealous, riddling exclusiveness of Yahweh himself.
Finally, a dreadfully tangled tragi-comic (but mostly comic) story of the man who ended up going to his ex's funeral as his son... accompanied by his actual father. As the chap's mother said, it had something rather Alan Bennetish about it. Though it's rather sad that the dead man apparently was never able to tell his family the truth about himself.