Iona is described as a “thin place” – that is it is one of those places recognised as where Celts believed that the veil between heaven and earth was thin & they could be seen to meet.
I have been to other thin places, or spiritual chill out zones as I often describe them and [...]
Am currently in an undisclosed location enjoying the last gasp of my break – and gently getting back to reality.
I know that a couple of people are interested in my trip to Iona over Christmas and so I am going to give a series of brief (?!) glimpses. However, as somethings can’t and shouldn’t be [...]
Not sure what computer access will be from tomorrow onwards so let me take this opportunity to wish you all a really peaceful and safe Christmas and New Year.
Thanks to you guys for reading me & more than that thanks to you for just being around this year. As most of you know this year [...]
I’ve been reflecting upon the Chrimbo story and how Mary would have felt. I guess my sub-conscious was prompted into this by seeing a trailor for The Nativity Story , but I wonder how far even that is likely to go. Here is my (briefish) version of the story – based on what I’ve picked [...]
I’m sure that in our modern world with increasingly fragmented families that ours is not an unusal experience. Mother and daughter will be seperated on Christmas Day, daughter and father will be celebrating.
So how do you handle it? Well, there are a variety of choices and over the years – in one direction or [...]
Ok, so the evangelicals in the US are hardline moralists who we can learn little from? Um – no, not all of them. It’s one of those popular misconceptions.
A quick game of explore the links on the Baptist Times site quickly gets rid of that view & infact you could easily get the impression [...]
Even if you are a pacifist you have to feel sympathy and anger for the treatment of the Gurkhas who as a cultural group have been fighting on behalf of this country for the last 200 years. Despite being one of the most loyal groups in the army they have persistently been descriminated against and [...]
Ok, so my grand tour of the north is nearly fully sorted, just need to get co-ordinated with the finer details of whether it will be an extra night in Edinburgh, Birmingham or somewhere inbetween and get the last train tickets for the middle part of the return leg booked and I’m there. There that [...]
Shouldn’t be on here today as not meant to be concentrating, but there were a few things I wanted to post.
1. There is still good in the world – this was evidenced yesterday by the two complete strangers who picked me up and bundled me off to be checked out at the local A&E last [...]
So today we have the top 5 books that I’ve read this year for leisure this year(note that doesn’t mean they actually came out this year & that leisure is a broad term which can overlap with study and work sometimes).
1. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
2. Self-made Man by Norah Vincent
3. [...]