24th Jan 2012

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A remarkable stand-off occurred recently between employees and management at the huge Chinese manufacturing company Foxconn. These are the people who make all our Apple stuff, Microsoft, Dell, Sony, Nokia, Samsung, Acer etc. In fact, they manufacture about a third of all the electronics we use in the west – including the computer I am writing this on, and quite possibly the one you’re reading this on. So it was that 150 Foxconn employees took their stand on a factory roof, threaten...READ MORE

9th Jan 2012

Redeeming Hermes

Hermes is the Greek god of both commerce and threshold – of movement from A to B. The Hymn to Hermes was written (around 420 BC) as Greece moved from an economy marked by the exchange of agrarian goods between kin to one that encompassed commerce between strangers for profit. From Hermes we also get the word “hermeneutics” – the art and science of interpretation. So when one missionary writes, “the church is the hermeneutic of the Gospel”, he means that the c...READ MORE

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