A few years back,2003 to be exact I went to the first 46664 concert in Cape Town, South Africa. The tickets were sold out, but we (we were: Hanne, Lydia, Sergey and Johanna.

Johanna and I, were in the prossess of hooking up actually,which is a totally different story) were able to get a few despite the sellout.

In connection with Nelson Mandelas 90 years of life on this earth there was a followup concert in Hyde park London yesterday. In a 2003 article from the concert Cape Times: Aids: world goes to war writes a summary of the purpose behind the concert and celebration.

The world’s war against HIV/Aids has begun. And the first shots were
fired at the packed Green Point Stadium on Saturday night.

Former president Nelson Mandela and music icons – including
Bob Geldof, Bono, Brian May, Annie Lennox, Beyoncé and Anastacia -
threw their weight behind the 46664 “Give a minute of your life for
Aids” campaign, which kicked off at the city concert.

The aim of the campaign, launched just before World Aids Day is
celebrated today, is to raise awareness globally about HIV/Aids, to
raise large amounts of money and to exert political pressure on
governments to join the fight.

The story behind the number is found on 46664.com

Which of these 50 commands found in the Bible are permanent,timeless and apply today, and which ones are temporary and only applicable in the original historical setting? Let me know what you think and why?

1. Greet one another with a holy kiss.(Rm. 16:16)
2. Abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols.(acts 15:29)
3. Be baptized. (acts 2:38)
4. A woman ought to have a veil on her head.

(1 cor 11:10)
5. wash each other’s feet.(John 13:14)
6. Enroll no widow under 60 years old.(1 tim. 5:9)
7. Ordain by the laying on of hands. (Acts 13:3)
8. It is indecent for a woman to speak in an assembly (1cor 14:35)
9. have fixed hours of prayer.(acts 3:10)

Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York times writes the following from a recent visit to the holy land.

He draws up two contrasts with the bad and ugly on one side;

“It is here in the Palestinian territories that you see the worst side of Israel: Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians (almost one-third of settlement land is actually privately owned by Palestinians); Palestinian women giving birth at checkpoints because Israeli soldiers won’t let them through (four documented cases last year); the diversion of water from Palestinians. (Israelis get almost five times as much water per capita as Palestinians.)”

and the beautiful, dynamic and life changing on the other;

“Yet it is also here that you see the very best side of Israel. Israeli human rights groups relentlessly stand up for Palestinians. Israeli women volunteer at checkpoints to help Palestinians through. Israeli courts periodically rule in favor of Palestinians. Israeli scholars have published research that undermines their own nation’s mythologies. Many Israeli journalists have been fair-minded toward Palestinians in a way that Arab journalists have rarely reciprocated.

Brian Mclaren on if he is liberal, published in a  USAtoday article not to long ago.

Q: You reject the word liberal to describe yourself.

A: What do you mean by the term? If liberal means you believe … you should help the poor, and your bias should be toward peacemaking rather than war-making, then I’m a liberal. But if liberal means that government can solve all of our problems and that secularism is better than faith, and that it doesn’t matter what you do in your personal life and that morality is up for grabs, then I’m not a liberal. And I could say the same thing about conservative.

and a couple other questions from the same interview:

The Danish poet is a fantastic little piece of film history.

This is a Norwegian/Canadian production that won an Oscar for best short subjects animation.

Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence

? Do little things matter?

The narrator of The Danish Poet considers these questions as we follow Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer, Sigrid Undset.

As Kasper’s quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, an angry dog, slippery barn planks, a careless postman, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.