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)

  • learning from my little toe

    I recently smashed my little toe against a chair leg. It hurt. I yelped. The pain was so bad that as I looked down at my little toe I half expected to see it hanging limply from my foot, or even having been amputated altogether. It wasn’t, it was still attached correctly. But it hurt.…

  • another thing I got wrong

    I have a lot of issues with some of the ways in which the Genesis Creation narratives are used by Christians. They are theological poetry (look at the way that the verses in Chapter 1 are set out in your Bible – not like prose, more like the settings of the Psalms) and narratives that…

  • more than coffee

  • i am who i am

  • provoked thought

  • finding hope

    Today is the day after the 2019 General Election in the UK. Those who read this blog regularly probably won’t be surprised to learn that it was not the result I was hoping and praying for. So what do we do? We can stomp around in an angry huff, complaining about fairness and how the…

  • RIP Truth

    Today we mourn the loss of Truthwho died un-noticed, forgotten and much-maligned.Truth (age unknown) died after a long period of neglectand abuse at the hands of humankindwho had not realised she had gone.Despite her indeterminate age, people remarked that Truth seemed to have been around forever.References to her have been found in manuscriptscovering all aspects…

  • rusty society

    If you own a car you will know that one of the greatest enemies of the automotive conveyance is iron oxide… aka rust. It slowly, imperceptibly, gently corrodes the bodywork and chassis of a car and, if left untreated, eventually renders it unusable and fit only for the scrap heap. And there is an emotion…

  • remembrance

    We interrupt the occasional thoughts about prayer to bring you my sermonette from Sunday morning – Remembrance Sunday… It always feels very poignant when I share communion on Remembrance Sunday, as we did last Sunday morning – Remembrance Sunday. The poppies are a moving remembrance of the death of many who have died in war.…

  • prayse

    Continuing my apparently occasional series on praying that began with the buffet I reach the more well-known subject of ‘praise’. I have to confess that in more naive times I wondered why we should praise God: not because he is not praiseworthy but for two other reasons. Reason the first – if he is GOD,…