nukelearfishing

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.

(These musings don’t necessarily represent the views of the church I serve)

  • Doing your job too well

    All of the UPVC windows on the manse where we live have lockable handles (potential burglars please note and don’t bother). They’re the sort that open and close when you push the button, unless you lock them: when the button doesn’t push in. I don’t know if they were all fitted around the same time…

  • how large are you?

    Many years ago, when I was serving as minister of a different church, I went to a conference for ministers of larger churches (not larger ministers of churches). There was a lot that was good and interesting, and a few things that bothered me (such as the lack of any female ministers) and a sense…

  • I’ve been tagged

    During my sabbatical leave I am spending most of my Sunday mornings overseas: I am travelling across the River Tamar and joining with Saltash Baptist Church. Contrary to humorous mythology you don’t need a passport, but you do need to pay for the use of the Tamar Bridge – to cross back into Devon. (I’m…

  • Feeling the heat?

    Last week Sally and I went on a camping holiday, staying at a touring park near Newquay in Cornwall. (That is the reason for the bloggage silence last week). If you live in UK you know that last week was HOT. Staying in a tent meant that there wasn’t really any escape from the heat,…

  • Words

    This week I have been mostly writing a novel. It’s a piece of work I started in 2007 and has been mostly dormant over the past couple of decades with occasional bursts of inspiration. I had managed about 14,000 words and reckon it was about half-finished when I resumed this week. We’re now up to…

  • together

    Last night Sally and I went to the cinema. We went to watch a film I have wanted to see since I heard it was being made. We went to watch a film that Sally was, at best, ambivalent about. But we went to watch a film. Together… On the way home, after the film,…

  • people who live in glass houses…

    To prepare myself for my sabbatical leave I created a series of brief Bible readings and reflections-one for each day. They’re based around our six values as a church. I made them available to our church, and if you’re interested you can follow them here. Today’s reaching was a short extract from the start of…

  • Obsessed with your reflection

    In Greek mythology Narcissus, an attractive hunter, was cursed by one of the women he spurned to fall in love with his own reflection in a clear, glassy pool of water. It’s where we get the term ‘narcissistic’*. I have been the Minister for the wonderful Mutley Baptist Church in Plymouth for five years now,…

  • Coming soon

    I have just been shocked to see that I haven’t created any bloggages this year! It’s just not good enough, is it? There are reasons for this – one is that I have been doing some training as a Pastoral Supervisor and that has taken a lot of my time and creative energy that might…

  • Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

    One of the greatest songs of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen opens with these questions. I recently had an experience that led me to ask similar questions about myself. In the summer I was interviewed on zoom for a magazine. It was a fun interview and the interviewer said some kind things about me.…