ange's musings

Last week my passport arrived in the post complete with a work visa to be an RMO (resident medical officer in Cantberbury District, Christchurch hospital, NZ). Its an odd feeling when all the prayers you have uttered and asked others to pray for all the little (somewhat trivial in teh grand scheme of life) things have been answered abundantly and graciously, with plenty of tiem to spare before pending deadlines. Today, I should be at house group but I am exhausted, shattered, so tired I had a long and scary blink on the way home in the car - no idea why I am so tired but think planning for the next few months, the next academic year has resulted in a lack of rest in the present. I have just had a feeling that I need to be constantly seeing friends, saying farewells and making the effort all that bit more. I am already going to be missing 3 weddings (that I know about) during my year working oversease, and a close friend recently got engaged and of course has let me know she has a date ...

For many years now, every week I receive two emails from the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC). One arrives on a Monday morning, with insightful ideas on how to live from a Biblical perspective, second email arrives on Friday and usually before noon raising various issues, local or global, always relevant and thought-provoking. Sometimes the issues raised are too complex for my little brain to tinkle over alone so I thought I would share Nigel Hopper's thoughts with you from Friday 19th June. Broadband, Narrow Vision? From the coordination via social networking websites of protests in Iran, to the phasing out of textbooks in favour of online learning resources in California, to your viewing of this article wherever you are in the world, Internet technology has changed the way we live. And, whether you think it for better or worse, it will continue to do so. Indeed, such is the pace of technological advance that the remarkable now quickly becomes commonplace, an...