Archive for November, 2008
Popular Churches Provide Parking Lot Ministries
America takes religion seriously. Unlike their British counterparts many American churches have been enjoying expanding congregations and, come Sunday, their parking lots fill to capacity.
To help with the inevitable congestion at this busy time of the week many churches now use specialist teams, or parking ministries, to help church goers find a parking space and [...]The Obama feel good factor
The Nurse is excited about Obama’s inauguration in January.
She can’t remember the last time she was excited about politics. For years she has been variously exasperated, bored, frustrated, maddened and rendered comatose. Seldom has she felt positive or hopeful.
But this is different. She’d go as far as to admit that Obama’s victory gave her a little Kennedy moment, squatting on [...]The 1970s economic crash – a familiar story?
Margaret Drabble could be writing about 2008
Without books The Nurse would go mental. She devours books. Locked up in here, they are her only glimpse into the outside world. Which she hasn’t seen for a very, very long time.
Today The Nurse is re-reading a tattered copy of an old favourite by Margaret Drabble, written in 1979 and set in the mid [...]What is the single most effective thing I can do for the environment?
Even though The Nurse is banged up, she’s still environmentally aware.
Tapping away on her keyboard late into the night, The Nurse has been trying to identify the single most effective thing she can do to help the environment.
OK, so she can’t do much from in here. HMP XXX isn’t exactly stuffed with consumer goods and [...]Belated Congratulations to Obama and the American People
All at the Sussex Amateur Brain Surgery Club wish to congratulate Barrack Obama and the American people on the results of their recent general election.
Even the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, congratulated Barrack Obama on his election win. This is the first time since the 1979 islamic revolution that an Iranian leader has made such positive [...]
