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.

As part of my sabbatical leave (just under one month to go) I have been writing again. The increased flow of bloggages that you have been enjoying / enduring (delete as appropriate) is part of that. I am also working again on a novel that I started a loooong time ago. And I have been…

We had a little rain today. Ordinarily it would not have been worth mentioning as it was nothing more than a brief, heavy shower. But in the context of the heatwave we’ve been enduring in UK at the moment it was extremely welcome. I could almost hear the arid, parched soil slurping up the rain…

Many years ago someone from the church I used to serve invited me to play golf with him. Other than crazy golf and the occasional ‘pitch and putt’ with my family I had not really played golf before but I thought I would give it a try as he said I could borrow his old…

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…