Today I start my training for 2012 & the main event. Tonight is going to be the first of 3 practice runs before we get there.
In other news, the sunrise today was beautiful. Wandering down into the city I got to enjoy the pinky, purpley bits of cloud mixing in with the grey and making [...]
Nothing particularly interesting to talk about today. So if you’ve not already visited I’ll send you over to JTL who has v. worthwhile musings going on.
Also worth a visit is The Sheffield Centre’s page on Evangelicism to Post-Christian Culture which is raising some interesting questions and holding a most interesting conference on Reaching Out in Mind Body [...]
Today I intended going to hear Hilary Armstong and others talking about the involvement of Christians in politics. As it was I ended up at a book launch hearing The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, (the Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey) and The Rt Revd Dr Tom Wright (the Lord Bishop of Durham) at a book review, discussing the involvement of [...]
Today is Holocaust Rememberance Day and the theme is “Stand Up to Hatred”.
To remind us of why here is Pasto Niemollers poem again:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out – because I was not [...]
Yesterday I had one of those days….. you know the sort which should really be a duvet day because you are doing your best Bridget Jones impression.
Anyway, today is a different day and I have woken up and have come to the following conclusions:
The books I throw across the room have the right view of [...]
Last night I did that thing where you drop young people off at a youth club and then go to the uni library to do some work before going to pick them up. (Note here: haven’t suddenly learnt to drive but some parents around here are less willing to let their teenagers wander about unescorted). At 8pm [...]
Q. How many times do we reinvent the wheel or tear our hair out with frustration about a lack of appropriate resources when we needn’t?
A. Far too many because far too often good, appropriate resources are produced and then vanish without trace a couple of years later. They become hidden amid a large resources list and dismissed [...]
This week is the week of prayer for Christian Unity, an annual event put together by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. I have to admit I have a rather soft spot for this annual event for all sorts of reasons, some good ecumenical ones and others for rather more sentimental nostalgic reasons. Anyway, last [...]
Sometimes I wonder who’s the higher level theology student in our flat, me or Third Party. Whilst I have been sitting muttering in the corner recently about the fact Obama is likely to leave people disappointed, and give that same feeling Blair did, Third Party has been looking at it on a whole deeper level.
Last week [...]
Why is it all of the Christian books that mention single parents, even the ones being positive, seem to see us victims of some sort? (Note here: I have to be careful in this post because may be the topic of some proper academic type writing in the future and I don’t want to look [...]