Blogging around
Just a quick set of links to some things I have been writing for other people recently.
My public comments on Christmas have, this year, both happened to have a music flavour. I was rather rude about Once in Royal David’s City in discussing the question ‘Was Jesus ever naughty as a child?‘ for the Evangelical Alliance magazine Idea; by contrast, I celebrated the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl whilst writing on the Theos team blog.
Off the Christmas theme, I made some comments about the role of theologians and other religious studies scholars in public debate for the blog of the Religion and the Idea of a Research University project that Cambridge is running here.
Great choice of Christmas song, Steve. Fairytale of New York is also my favourite. Personally I love the fact that it is edgy and a little crude (without being over the top). It juxtoposes with the rather banal ‘lets all be happy and joyous, and hooray it’s Christmas’ songs that dominate the festive period.