That's what you would be forgiven for believing if you have been reading some of this week's papers. Now I am sure that if you look around the churches you will find supporters of the Labour Party. As well as the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIP. Possibly some others. But that is not that …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Fast and Loose
It's Lent, the season for giving things up. But why? What is the point of having 40 or 46 days without chocolate, or alcohol. Or being the odd one out on a night out drinking Coca-Cola instead of real ale. There has to be a point to it beyond a chance to lose weight and …
Lent again
Over the last three years I have posted 40 blogs of Lent, not always on the fast days, but disciplining myself to blog daily is a contrast to the giving up most people do. (Talking about giving up, this year I told my wife I was giving up alcohol for Lent - Today she put …
Killed by one punch…
Two things I have blogged about. Cycling and Asperger's. Well not so much Asperger's, only one previous blog on that. But the two came together in an article in Metro, Wednesday 26th February and on the letters page the following day. The story was bout the light sentence a man had receives for killing another …
Rhubarb all the way.
What would you think of a pork and rhubarb sausage? Or maybe a pork and rhubarb pie is more to your liking? Or a hamburger with rhubarb and orange chutney washed down with a rhubarb cider, or a rhubarb mojito, whilst looking at a flower arrangement made of tulips and rhubarb.? No this is not …
… and in the depth be praise.
Psalms The songs that you find in the middle of the Bible are a bit of a mixed bag. Which is probably why we use the word psalm, from the Greek meaning song, rather than the Hebrew title Tehillim, which means praises. I mean, how can this be praise? O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, …
Anger Management
On Tuesday I visited the doctor. I was wanting to know what had happened to the anger management treatment I was supposed to be getting, things had stalled, it had been nearly a year since I last heard from anything, so it was time to get things kick started. The last I heard I was …
Mum
Mum has Alzheimer's. She has been diagnosed for around two years, and over that time we have been watching a slow deterioration in her memory. This has been particularly hard from Dad, who in his mid 80s has been flung into the role of carer. This is not a position which he easily fits into. …
The day the music died.
It's the end of an era. After twenty years of lunchtime jazz at the Head of Steam it has ended. Lunch on the last Sunday will not be the same. The pub has been taken over and the accountants have looked at the turnover. It looks like music is uneconomical. This sort of thing has …
Putting it together.
The last two blogs have been about the creation accounts of Genesis, the first comparing them with modern scientific theories and the second with the other middle eastern creation theories. Now here's a third one. There are many who attack religion as being anti-rational. I have tried to explain in the first blog that this …
