Sometimes, just sometimes you get stopped in your tracks and made to think. Reading through this Baptist Times article made me do so. Reading through it explains the rational behind apologies for involvement in slavery being made and lists the places that grew as economic centres as a result of slavery. I knew about [...]
I am currently in a quandry. Our church is starting a church library and is asking for donations of Christian books which is great because I need to clear an ickle space on my bookshelves.
However, whilst I am finding some selections of what to throw in their direction quite easy because they are sound evangelical [...]
There was a time when applications by small charities for grants and so forth depended upon the quality of the application and availability of other sources of funding, etc. These days, particularly in relation to heritage and culture, it appears to be part of the broadly reality tv world.
So it is tonight that two organisations [...]
At the moment I am of the opinion that hiding away in churches and not deciding to socialise with the wider world around us and ignoring the example of Jesus’ life might not be such a bad idea.
Reasons:
1. There is a general lack of fashion sense in churches, (unless, I suppose, you go to somewhere [...]
It’s that time of year when the C word is being liberally thrown around and one is expected to smile brightly at the thought, mutter a bit about the over commercialisation and then throw yourself into the spirit of the thing.
Personally I do and always have struggled alot with this time of year. It’s not [...]
Note to self: Today is a day to remember and the beginning of a new chapter, not a day to get cynical about in future.
Note to others: Sometimes church can seem to be a glorified manipulation of emotions but very occassionally something very real happens and God stops being the invisible bloke at the back. [...]
Back in October I posted this about an exhibition at a local gallery. Last night the artist presented me with the picture I described in the following way: “My personal favourite was a slightly abstract blue and silver picture by Marilyn Budd which evoked a feeling of being able to enter the frozen world [...]
Ok, so it was long and not exactly absorbing but I went to the cathedral and picked up the appropriate bit of paper after having had “the photo” done both with and without Third Party (only thing that made me feel better about the photo bit was the knowledge I had got the Chrimbo prezzies [...]
Tomorrow I graduate and I will celebrate with my family. Whilst Third Party will be there the rest of the family I’m going to celebrate with will be my urban household rather than my blood family.
To a certain extent I always thought that the Without a Boy or Bridget Jones model of urban family was [...]
I’ve been reading Exiles by Michael Frost recently. I have to say that it is an interesting book which is largely coming from the direction I would describe myself as coming from. However, it is not a comfortable book to read because Frost doesn’t allow any reader to feel fluffy rather he challenges [...]