Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

A niece, an uncle designed by Roald Dahl, and wisdom from Walter Benjamin

Carl Trueman
Mar 16, 2007
While I was at home with my parents last week, my niece (not the Welsh-speaking turncoat) stopped over for Saturday night. While she loves me as (she says) `my uncle from a Roald Dahl book, who’s never grown up and is naughtier than I am,’ I’m afraid certain aspects of my style leave her perplexed.

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Carl Trueman
Mar 14, 2007
I see the new film `300' is stirring up controversy as an `anti-Iranian piece of propaganda.'

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Carl Trueman
Mar 14, 2007
I see the new film `300' is stirring up controversy as an `anti-Iranian piece of propaganda.'

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Carl Trueman
Mar 14, 2007
I see the new film `300' is stirring up controversy as an `anti-Iranian piece of propaganda.'

Culture of victimhood

Carl Trueman
Mar 14, 2007
Had a terrible weekend. I was at home with mum and dad when my Welsh speaking niece arrived wearing, of all things, a Cymru rugby shirt. Virtual blasphemy in my father's house. Still, after the Italian triumph on Saturday, I managed to cope. I gather the Sons of Glyndwr are blaming the English...

Culture of victimhood

Carl Trueman
Mar 14, 2007
Had a terrible weekend. I was at home with mum and dad when my Welsh speaking niece arrived wearing, of all things, a Cymru rugby shirt. Virtual blasphemy in my father's house. Still, after the Italian triumph on Saturday, I managed to cope. I gather the Sons of Glyndwr are blaming the English...

Culture of victimhood

Carl Trueman
Mar 14, 2007
Had a terrible weekend. I was at home with mum and dad when my Welsh speaking niece arrived wearing, of all things, a Cymru rugby shirt. Virtual blasphemy in my father's house. Still, after the Italian triumph on Saturday, I managed to cope. I gather the Sons of Glyndwr are blaming the English...

Janis Joplin and Martin Luther

Carl Trueman
Mar 5, 2007
Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things. First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee' that he didn't know I had a Joplin album. To recognise the voice like that at 11 must make...

Janis Joplin and Martin Luther

Carl Trueman
Mar 5, 2007
Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things. First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee' that he didn't know I had a Joplin album. To recognise the voice like that at 11 must make...

Janis Joplin and Martin Luther

Carl Trueman
Mar 5, 2007
Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things. First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee' that he didn't know I had a Joplin album. To recognise the voice like that at 11 must make...