http://thecrosscounts.com Thinking through what the Bible means in today's real world! Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:49:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For weeks now all our tabloid press and celebrity gossip magazines have featured pictures of Britney Spears. The latest news which no-one could have missed was of course her being detained in a psychiatric hospital. The fact that she is legally detained means that the problem is serious enough for medical ... http://thecrosscounts.com/10/britney-spears-and-her-mental-health-problems/ Do you know what really annoys me? When people say that statements made by evangelical Christians about our God are offensive to people of other faiths and/or no faith. Locally our city council have stopped refering officially to the Christmas holiday period and renamed it "Winter Festival" so as not to ... http://thecrosscounts.com/9/do-you-know-what-really-annoys-me/ I read today in "The Sunday Post" newspaper that our NHS could afford to employ another 750 nurses if they could stop the fraud that is occurring within its organisation. Apparently in the next few days they are launching a new campaign to make employees aware of the problem with DVDs ... http://thecrosscounts.com/7/nhs-thefts-prevent-treatment-of-our-sick-and-disabled-people/ I was listening to a news item the other day about a person from Ghana who was discharged from one of our hospitals before her treatment was completed  so she could be evicted from the country. Apparently she had come to the UK and was seeking asylum to stay. She was ... http://thecrosscounts.com/6/our-christian-country-our-national-health-service-and-asylum-seekers/ Firstly I apologise to you who were coming back here to follow the build we were doing for Peterhead-Methodist church. We had been doing a lot of experimenting with new ideas live on this domain for them. But have now transferred the site back over to their main site and ... http://thecrosscounts.com/3/welcome-back-to-the-cross-counts/