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)

  • hug etiquette

    Hugs come in all shapes and sizes. I suppose a handshake is a very formal, limited contact form of hug and they move through to an arm around the shoulder, on to a full embrace, ultimately to a full-on bear hug. There seems to be an etiquette about hugs that you don’t exceed the hug…

  • being pointed

    Do you ever get those moments when you are aware that you are not in complete control of your life? I am not talking about those times when you feel that your life is out of control. Rather I mean those moments when you realise that God has been at work behind the scenes gently…

  • the other side of the door

    This morning I had a check-up by the Dentist. Thankfully he was only checking my teeth. The appointment was at 10.55 but there were plenty of people waiting when I arrived and many of them weren’t seen before 11.30. A general air of disgruntlement spread across the waiting room (not helpful by the usual ubiquitous…

  • logos

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Or to be more precise, about 20 years ago in Beckenham… It was while I was at the vicar factory also known as Spurgeon’s College and I was at home working on my New Testament Greek. We were studying John’s gospel. I had been reading…

  • important dates

    It seems that the latest trend is to allocate a whole month to raising awareness of issues. It began with ‘Movember’, which I believe started in Australia where men were encouraged to grow a moustache (a ‘mo’) to raise awareness of testicular cancer. We are now in ‘Stoptober’ where people are encouraged to stop smoking.…

  • Acceptable response

    Last week, in response to the headline policies announced at political party conferences I tweeted that when Jesus said that we would always have poor people the correct response is ‘Challenge accepted’ not ‘Okay!’ I have pondered this since then and wonder what the correct responses might be to some of Jesus’ other difficult sayings……

  • time travel

    We human beings are obsessed with time. Our lives are shaped by the rudimentary 24 hour clock which God built into the solar system: the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. With the advent of timepieces (sundials giving way to clocks and watches) we have been able to be more precise…

  • pit stop

    I am a part-time chaplain at the University of Essex. I have just received my new parking permit for 2013-14. I am designated as an ‘occasional user’. This means that I am not on the campus more than a couple of days a week at most. There are other categories for those who are on…

  • wake up and smell the coffee

    Those who have only known me a little will probably have realised that I like coffee, especially good coffee. I don’t really like tea (which is not ideal for a Minister doing pastoral visits when a pot of tea has been brewed for you), but coffee hits the spot for me. It fascinates me that…

  • a radical thought?

    I feel the need to follow up from yesterday’s bloggage. Having survived the suggestion that God is not in control without being denounced, defriended or debagged (couldn’t think of a third ‘de-‘ word) I feel a little courageous. So I want to suggest something even more radical and controversial. I am warming up to it…