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		<title>Quartet: More Than a Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 09:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dustin Hoffman&#8217;s directional debut Quartet has been released to DVD this month. The full 98 minutes are played out in and around a grant retirement home which exclusively houses ex musicians and singers. IMDB summarise the film&#8217;s plot as&#8230; &#8220;Cecily, Reggie, and Wilfred are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, on October 10, there is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=3022&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Against Disabalism: Jemma&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 11:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hailes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disabilism definition: Discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities. Today I&#8217;m taking part in Blogging Against Disabalism Day (BADD). Why? Well five years ago I met Jemma Brown. Her super lovely guide dog Guss she was hard to miss at university. The three of us became friends. My view of disabled people had never been negative, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=3014&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Christians In The UK Persecuted?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week ago on Easter Sunday, George Carey decided to ask the above question. His piece in the Mail on Sunday immediately split opinion and managed to succeed in getting Christians to talk about all kinds of issues that had precisely nothing to do with the importance of the Easter period. I have always lamented [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2961&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easter 2013: The Message</title>
		<link>http://holymansam.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/easter-2013-the-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hailes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late great CS Lewis once said: &#8220;Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.&#8221; Regular readers to this blog will know that while my faith often crops up, I (hopefully) avoid being too &#8220;preachy&#8221;. You won&#8217;t typically see me reviewing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2954&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A good Good Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took a trip up to London to explore the depth and diversity of Christian expression during the Easter period. Not really, I was just on a date with Stacey. Nevertheless, we did enjoy attending three separate and very different events to mark the day Jesus died for the sins of the world. On the way [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2942&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Believe Everything You See on TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hailes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The camera never lies&#8217;. Err, yes it does. For a start there&#8217;s a gazillion clever camera tricks they we&#8217;ve all seen before in the cinema. Even if you don&#8217;t believe the urban legend that &#8216;the camera adds 10 pounds&#8217; we all know that Photoshop can add or takeaway as many pounds, spots or freckles as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2930&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graffiti On The Train &#8211; Stereophonics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hailes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stereophonics&#8217; eighth album needed to be great. It needed to make up for their previous release: Keep Calm And Carry On. In what can only be described as a highly embarrassing incident, the Welshmen managed to press the all-important record button on an album that featured next to no rock. When a rock band fails to rock, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2922&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian &amp; Gospel Music: Let The Future Begin!</title>
		<link>http://holymansam.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/christian-gospel-music-let-the-future-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hailes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passion makes all the difference. It was on the way back from last night&#8217;s historic event where Christian music finally got its own chart that one industry professional pointed this out to me: &#8220;The Edge could play an amazing guitar riff, but when Bono picks the guitar up, it doesn&#8217;t sound the same.&#8221; The comment [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2903&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Got &#8216;The Shack&#8217; Wrong</title>
		<link>http://holymansam.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/why-i-got-the-shack-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hailes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the book that divided Christians. The Shack was called &#8220;deeply troubling&#8221; by Albert Mohler while Eugene Peterson (translator of The Message) compared it to well known classic The Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress. As for me, I felt it had its ups (intriguing dialogue) and downs (questionable theology) but overall I can&#8217;t say I was gripped by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2894&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Of The &#8216;Mo&#8217;ment: Farah</title>
		<link>http://holymansam.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/the-man-of-the-moment-farah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything Mo Farrah can&#8217;t do? 10,000 metres Olympic champion. 5,000 metres Olympic, World and European champion.  Inventor of the Mo Bot. Object of one of the internet&#8217;s greatest memes: And now, Twitter Superstar and bastion of British politeness as well! The story starts yesterday when Farah won the New Orleans Half Marathon (please [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holymansam.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11698307&#038;post=2887&#038;subd=holymansam&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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