Psalms of the Sons of Korah Some hymns are little more than setting the words of the psalm to fit a tune and adding a rhyme, The Lord's my shepherd and The king of love my shepherd is are both more or less direct translations of Psalm 23. There are lots of examples of this …
Continue reading Glorious things of thee are spoken — Psalm 87
Yes, I know it says kids with autism and most autistic people prefer to say autistic kids, but it is a quote. I know it's wrong. This will be old news when this blog is published, one week old in fact. Last Wednesday, 13th October 2021, as reported in Stat, statnews.com. There are things in …
Medway Maritime Hospital was listed as one of 15 healthcare providers which will act as a “research site” for the controversial DNA project, but a Freedom of Information request submitt… Source: Spectrum 10K: Autism study ‘did not open’ at NHS hospital, despite researchers saying it did – Liam O'Dell
Friday last week was a dark day for politics. Conservative MP Sir David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West was stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Leigh-on-Seaand later died at the scene. Police said there were possible links to Islamic extremism. Sir David AmessCopyright free image from Wikipedia Commons This …
Psalms of the Sons of Korah? There are a whole bunch of commentaries on Psalm 86 which look at the meaning of the psalms in isolation: This is not one of them, I am looking at how the psalms fit together, and also at the poetic structure and how that affects my understanding. This Psalm …
Continue reading You, O Lord, are good and forgiving — Psalm 86
I need to find some time to pause and reflect and prayerfully discern what and where my energies need to go. This blog has become something I never guessed it would be, and it is a little fractured. It is split between posts about autism and posts about Christianity. The image above shows something that …
A lot of music is dictated by the building it is played in, particularly church music. The resonance of the building creates a sound that is played there. You only have to hear the resonance of softly sung voices in a large cathedral, choral evensong in York Minster being a case in point, to realise …
Psalms of the Sons of Korah Can righteousness and peace actually kiss? Yes, because Ancient Hebrew philosophy is not like modern Western philosophy. In the book of Proverbs Wisdom is a lady, philosophical ideas are personified, wisdom, righteousness and peace are treated as people in order to understand them rather than the idealistic abstract quality …
It has been a bad week for the British police, and the Metropolitan Police in particular. Serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens was given a full life sentence last Thursday, 30th September 2021, for charges including the false arrest, kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. There are things about the case which give me …
How not to lose those who came to virtual services How do we hold on to those who came to our virtual services? The bad news is we can't do it. Some came because their church did not have any online services and when churches open again they will go back. Then there is another …
