Day 259: Say what?

This is an art gallery entrance. It was closed, so we couldn't tell if the art lived up to its billing, but the sign in itself suggested that it would (if you see what I mean?).

This evening we met with the church core team and ended up having a fairly heated discussion. In some ways this was good (we were really engaging with an issue and caring about it and learning about each other in a beneath-the-surface way), in other ways not so good (some people had difficulty getting a word in while others - myself foremost probably - dominated the discussion). One of my colleagues refers to the church as my 'new cult'. Fair enough. If some people think we're so way-out that we're not really a church I don't mind that too much - we're just trying to do the right things and value the right things. We didn't really reach any conclusions in our discussion and that's OK too, one of the things I am learning to value is a willingness of our community to ask questions of ourselves and each other - and for that to have real meaning it means that we must not be too sure of the answers in the first place.

Burma/Myanmar has been in the news today I saw an interesting article on the BBC news website called "Should it be Burma or Myanmar?". This included the following informative panel:

HOW IS MYANMAR PRONOUNCED?
There are various ways
'My' may be 'mee' as in 'street' or 'my' as in 'cry'
And stress can be on the first, second or third syllable

Down to just six possible pronunciations then. Thanks for nothing.

[I've just seen that Albaniana has blogged a bit more seriously about the situation there today.]