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)

  • dating

    Rather belatedly, “Happy New Year!” Why is it that we celebrated new years? After all it’s just another 360 degree rotation of the planet on our orbit of the sun, just like any other. The fact that we have decided to number and name dates does not make them any more special than any other.…

  • the neverending story

    I love the Christmas season. Beyond being the season of sparkle, tinsel, presents and ho, ho, ho it’s the season that is full of joy, hope, intimacy with God and the miraculous wonder of Immanuel. There’s so much in the few verses and chapters that we read at this time of year each year. Given…

  • episode 29

    (no spoilers please, I haven’t seen it yet!)

  • passwords

    I don’t think I am the only one who has come to hate passwords, am I? In the good old days of telephone banking I might have to remember one password along with my date of birth and mother’s maiden name. I was rubbish at it. I could remember my date of birth and mother’s maiden name…

  • episode 28

    Yes, I know it looks like one I posted earlier in the week, but I decided that I preferred the subtle approach so adjusted the text a bit…

  • post-truth?

    The word ‘post-truth’ has been declared the Oxford Dictionaries word of 2016. It is an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. It emerged this year to try to describe the way in which the UK…

  • episode 27

      Further adventures of Minillenium Falcon can be found in the page on the right

  • a brief history of communication*

    Technological advances have provided us with so many new ways of communicating with each other. It probably started with Thag and Ug gesticulating to each other and making sounds that they mimicked – gradually evolving into a spoken and comprehensible language. Cave paintings at that time of history were perhaps the earliest form of strategy…

  • Christmas present

    As I am recycling at the moment (eg Nora the Noisy Angel) I thought I would recycle a ‘thought for the week’ I sent to the Ministers in the Eastern Baptist Association this week. I had a clever mailing from a well-known Swedish furniture store come through my letter box last week. On the front…

  • nora the noisy angel

    In the interests of recycling I am reposting something I wrote 3 years ago. It’s the text for a story that you might like: Nora the noisy angel* Heaven was normally a calm, quiet place. It was peaceful, gentle and lovely. The angels would talk to each other in gentle whispers because it was so…