What is in Kelvin's Head?

  • The Christian Year and Social Media

    I do love the way that the Christian Year is becoming more important to Christians because of social media.

    When I check my facebook and twitter feeds in a morning I can be pretty sure that there will be something there which relates to what season or more likely what day we have got to in the cycle of faith.

    Today for example, I checked my facebook feed and found a lovely description of St Margaret of Scotland posted by Kirstin Freeman.

    Today is St Margaret’s Feast Day and I can remember a time when most people simply wouldn’t participate in such a festival. Now, if you follow a few Christian bloggers and social media mavens you get little reminders of the heros of faith – comment and pictures and all kinds of good things just arriving before your eyes.

    Passive learning is a big feature of the new knowledge economy. I find it odd that lots of people in the church still don’t get it and still think that learning is about people coming to hear them spout. It can be far more dynamic and far more interesting, even if spouting is still part of what the church has to offer.

9 responses to “Jane Russell RIP”

  1. fr dougal Avatar
    fr dougal

    She had politics?

    Reply
  2. Kelvin Holdsworth Avatar
    Kelvin Holdsworth

    I believe she described herself as “a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot.”

    Any more questions, John?

    (Apart from where one might find flesh coloured swimming trunks?)

    Reply
  3. fr dougal Avatar
    fr dougal

    Well, at least she was honest – and by now she knows she was wrong!

    Reply
  4. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    Not just the flesh colour but the little dark band on them which is – quite distracting.

    Reply
  5. kelvin Avatar
    kelvin

    I wondered whether the little dark band was sewn on in order to show, for the avoidance of doubt, that they were in fact wearing something.

    Reply
  6. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    I think we have to admit the little band does rather more than draw attention to their being to some degree dressed.

    Reply
  7. kelvin Avatar
    kelvin

    I think its a curious visual paradox. It makes them appear dressed on the one hand and quite undressed on the other.

    Reply
  8. RevRuth Avatar
    RevRuth

    Oh I see!This wasn’t really about Jane Rusell at all…

    Reply
  9. Kelvin Avatar
    Kelvin

    Pay attention, Mother. Pay attention.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Previous Posts

  • Riling the Nuns

    Oh no, I’ve managed to rile the nun-lobby in my previous post. You never know who you are going to upset when you start blogging. It was my comment about three nuns sitting around singing kum-by-yah that did it. And I was quoting someone else too. For the record, a good deal of my training…

  • Back to work

    Back to work yesterday. Today was spent answering or dealing with all but 12 of the 150 e-mails that were waiting for me. (None of those 150 were spam, either). I had a lovely holiday, thank you for asking. It is one’s duty to be able to say that you have enjoyed a lovely holiday…

  • Holy George

    Today is St George’s Day and as I live in St George’s Cross, I feel as though I should make some effort to mark the fact. There is a statue of him just around the corner from me. His iconography is as usual here – beardless, riding on a horse and slaying a dragon. There…