nukelearfishing – the random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and discover God in the ordinary.

We live in an increasingly interconnected world, don’t we? Smart devices in homes talk to one another and to us and are becoming increasingly conversational – reminding me of the happy toaster in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I have even heard of fridges that can order food for you because their cameras inside…

What you mostly find on the pages of my blog are my thoughts, my reflections, my musings. This is first and foremost a space where I can process things that I think, where I can imagine things that may be, where I can follow feral ideas down rabbit holes and see what I find. And…

Regulars among you will know that one of my interests is performing magic illusions*. I started over 30 years ago, buying a handful of illusions that I thought might be useful in my work as a youth minister, and I discovered an aptitude for it. Now I have a wide repertoire of illusions and put…

Since deciding to put together a book of my pomes (sic) something has happened. Well, actually, two things. One is that our older daughter, Katherine, suggested a number of possible titles for the book, demanding a percentage of the profits if one of them is used. I do have a title but thought you’d like…

I am currently just over halfway through a three-month period of sabbatical leave from serving the church I love. It’s been refreshing, enjoyable (and hot). A question I have been asked a lot before and during this time is, “What are you doing?” Some sabbaticals include global travel, worthy projects and life-changing experiences. Mine has…

Hope. It’s such a positive word. We hope. There is so much anticipation, opportunity and longing hidden in those four letters. As I write today there is a lot of hope in England. This evening our football team plays in the semi-final of the World Cup against Argentina. On the TV news reporters were going…

Some of you are too young to remember that there was a time when there were only three TV channels. BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. They didn’t broadcast all the time, there was no such thing as Breakfast TV, for example, and they would close down at the end of an evening. There would be ‘test…

Last week I went on a week’s retreat. It was a time of spiritual refreshment and was using poetry writing and some gentle artwork as ways of reflecting and meditating. I was very excited about the poetry part of it as it’s part of what I am trying to recover in my routine of reflection…

In the novel what I am wrote (you’ll want to read it cos I’m so good at Englishing) the characters visit an indoor skydiving centre. I won’t bore you with the plot (you’ll have to read it to experience the boredom properly) but it has offered me some alternative ways of looking at things and…