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Category: silence

  • words fail me

    That is perhaps not the most optimistic title for a word-based bloggage! But there are times when words do fail us. They can fail us when we are overwhelmed – by awe, by joy, by generosity, by tragedy and by grief – by emotions that are more powerful than words can express. In the tragic circumstances…

  • inadequate prayers

    Those who know me at all will know that it is rare that words fail me. But the shooting at Sandy Hook School, Newtown, Connecticut, left me speechless. I wanted to express outrage at what had happened, despair at how helpless I felt, pain and grief for the families who had been bereaved, but all…

  • shhhh

    I’m back! It seems like forever since I last wrote any bloggerel, and some of you may think it’s still too soon. No matter, I will follow my usual pattern and ignore the wishes of my readers – all three of you. I have just come back from the last of my sabbatical visits. I…

  • silence explained

    In case you were wondering about the lack of fresh bloggerel yesterday, there is a very simple explanation… I didn’t write anything. And there’s a very simple explanation about why I didn’t write anything… It was a Bank Holiday here in the UK and I took the day off. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t being…

  • finding faith

    Last night’s Deep Thought at our church was fascinating. ‘Deep Thought’ is the name for an open discussion group where we consider big questions of life, the Universe and everything. It is named after the computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that was designed to answer that question and came up with the answer… I…

  • talking with technology

    One of my Christmas presents this year has been transforming the way that I interact with my computer. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is allowing me to dictate directly into e-mails, documents and even my blog. I have been very impressed with the accuracy of the program and as well as saving wear until my fingers is also…

  • patiently impatient

    Dear Bloggists Today’s apparent silence has been because someone had broken the internet. Or at least the part of it to which we are supposedly connected. This is becoming a frustratingly frequent occurrence. I am impatient for them to fix it. Isn’t amazing how quickly we assimilate technology and start to rely on it? It…

  • I can’t hear you…

    In our new morning sermon series on prayer we are looking to be honest and (I hope) practical. So next Sunday morning we are looking at praying ‘when God is silent’. My evangelical hackles instinctively go up when I come across a statement like that. Of course he is not silent. God is always communicating…