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  • New Year Predictions 2015

    Here are my New Year Predictions for 2015

     

    1. Those who voted YES in the Scottish Referendum will continue to behave as though they won. This may be unhelpful.
    2. Those who voted NO in the Scottish Referendum will continue to behave as thought he referendum never happened. This may be unhelpful.
    3. There will, I fear, be a Tory Prime Minister at the end of 2015.
    4. The Liberal Democrats will retain 10 – 14 seats in the House of Commons.
    5. Nick Clegg will lose his seat and be Lord Clegg by the end of the year.
    6. The Labour Party will not be led by a Milliband by the end of the year.
    7. The Church of Scotland will begin a new procedure under the barrier act to determine whether to accept ministers in same-sex partnerships who are married (ie not merely in Civil Partnerships).
    8. There will be legal victories for those seeking to extend Civil Partnerships to straight couples.
    9. Elizabeth Warren will become a household name.
    10. (Some) straight liberals will lead the charge (such as it is) for (something less than) LGBT equality, (sometimes). Believe it or not, I’m excited by this and it is an improvement. [Remember that in 2011 I predicted that “No straight liberal in the church will feel the need to sacrifice anything at all for the gay friends they purport to support.” Things are changing a bit].
    11. Advances in e-learning in churches.

4 responses to “Lent Booklist”

  1. RevRuth Avatar
    RevRuth

    Interesting to read your comments on Quarantine by Jim Croce. I too read it some years ago and wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. But I think it was a good thing to have read.

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  2. kennedy Avatar
    kennedy

    Link to Aberdeen website has an extra .uk

    Kennedy

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  3. Steven Avatar
    Steven

    An interesting list – I think I might have a look at Vision upon Vision. I am currently reading The Inescapable Love of God by Thomas Talbott which has been excellent so far.

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  4. Russell Goulbourne Avatar
    Russell Goulbourne

    Wonderful–thank you! I’ll try Arditti’s Enemy of the Good first.

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