November 9, 2012 – The Artsy Honker

AcWriMo 7: Old Street CM

Byartsyhonker November 9, 2012 0 Comments

I like these words by Isaac Watts, but the only sung version of them I know is a bit difficult for congregational singing. You can hear it about 33 seconds into my Easter Journeys contribution from spring 2012: Now, I'm sure there are other tunes. "Martyrdom" is certainly used sometimes, but that is now so closely associated with "As pants the hart for cooling streams" that it feels a bit odd....

Subversive, wonderful economic activism: Rolling Jubilee

Byartsyhonker November 9, 2012 0 Comments

I've commented a few times on Twitter that we in the West do not have a debt problem so much as a usury problem. I won't say that charging interest is always evil: in the case of someone starting a new business and needing to borrow in order to do so, or someone buying a home and needing a mortgage, I believe it is fair to charge some interest. I do think that punishingly high interest rates are...