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Tag: Jesus

  • invention is the mother of necessity

    For almost all of human history we have stayed close to where we were born. Travel was on foot, latterly on horses or other animals. To get anywhere further away than the visible horizon took ages. Until tracks and roads were established navigation was by reference to the sun (if you could see it) by…

  • mysterious

    This week we went up to Lancashire to visit our older daughter and her wife and I was confused to find pools of water on the pavement. What were these strange phenomena? What could be causing them? While we were at the railway station waiting for our train to begin our return journey water started…

  • change? change? change?

    Change is inevitable …except from a vending machine That little quip is not original to me and is attributed to Robert C. Gallagher, but I rather like it for several reasons. It makes me smile. The first time I came across it I remember giggling at it as it was funny. Now, the giggle reflex…

  • how large are you?

    Many years ago, when I was serving as minister of a different church, I went to a conference for ministers of larger churches (not larger ministers of churches). There was a lot that was good and interesting, and a few things that bothered me (such as the lack of any female ministers) and a sense…

  • Words

    This week I have been mostly writing a novel. It’s a piece of work I started in 2007 and has been mostly dormant over the past couple of decades with occasional bursts of inspiration. I had managed about 14,000 words and reckon it was about half-finished when I resumed this week. We’re now up to…

  • Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

    One of the greatest songs of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen opens with these questions. I recently had an experience that led me to ask similar questions about myself. In the summer I was interviewed on zoom for a magazine. It was a fun interview and the interviewer said some kind things about me.…

  • what’s the point of shouting?

    As I sit in my office at the church building where I serve I can hear a man shouting very loudly in the street outside. I can’t hear what he is bellowing but his tone is very aggressive and I can hear a female voice being drowned out by his shouts. It is distressing to…

  • When a welcome is not enough

    Many years ago, Sally and I visited a church for a morning service. I won’t embarrass it here by naming it as I would hope that things have changed in the past 30+ years! We were looking for a new church to call our spiritual home, but had to leave soon after the service ended,…

  • new blog post this is

    Ever since I was a ten-year-old who went with his Dad to the cinema to see a new film called ‘Star Wars (a new hope)’ I have been a fan of that film franchise. There’s something about the galactic struggle between the forces of good and evil (or the light and dark side of ‘the…

  • splashes of grace

    On Easter Monday my wife, Sally, and I went for a walk at a local reservoir. It was a mild day and we decided to walk all the way around the reservoir. After a while we stopped and I took this photograph, and then we saw a bench so sat on it to have a…