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Fewer Baths

About 10 years ago an article in a leadership magazine moaned about the loss of strategic thinking by managers, and rather bizarrely attributed this in part to the fact that showers were becoming much more popular, and that "long soaks in a bath" were on their way out. A recent study on behalf of Oxfam has confirmed this trend. many household baths are now unused or used only occasionally (the study said only 5 times a month, half what it was in 2000), not primarily for environmental reasons of using less water but for time reasons because showers are quicker. 11% of households have had their baths actually taken out, usually to be replaced by a walk-in shower. Hopefully, Christian leaders are still taking baths rather than showers!
(From  'Future First', Number 21, June 2012)

Love your brain!


We’re all supposed to hate a ‘boff’. Even in church, it’s the worst thing to us when someone’s all theory and no practice, or when there’s an egg-head that no-one can understand.

And yes, Jesus agrees that it’s not all about knowing stuff, but putting it into practice.

But here’s the point: we live in an anti-intellectual culture. And it’s bad when we bring school or TV attitudes into our Christian life. Our brain, our thinking, is to be transformed like every other part of us. In fact, it goes further than that.