Yes, 16 days: I forgot to take a picture yesterday. Me hatless, with 16 days moustach growth Movember continues. on 16th November there is a little bit more mo to show for it. For those who are confused by that openning sentence, Movember is not one of my many typos, it is a campaign to …
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MEDIA WATCH – Kirklees Autism Group
Autism is good for work “Therapists, psychologists and nurses who are autistic say it has made them better at their jobs, but that misconceptions about the condition are forcing them to keep … Source: MEDIA WATCH – Kirklees Autism Group
Black thoughts – Psalm 6
Psalms of David Psalms in Book 1 (Psalms 1 to 41) are mostly personal songs, so I will be looking at how they apply to us personally. Social and communal aspects of life and work do not come in until the later books of psalms. When asked how I have my coffee I often say, …
A lament – Psalm 5
Psalms of David Psalms in Book 1 (Psalms 1 to 41) are mostly personal songs, so I will be looking at how they apply to us personally. Social and communal aspects of life and work do not come in until the later books of psalms. Don't you just hate it when bad things are happening …
Holy nudity?
Nakedness and the Bible. Let's get the Jesus question out of the way first. Jesus is depicted implicitly as naked five times in scripture. The first is his birth, we are all born naked, the second at his circumcision, then his baptism, crucifixion and his resurrection. The resurrection is explicit, we are told the grave …
Returning
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 43 Sunday after Ascension 2022 Christ has died,Christ is risen,Christ will come again. Heart-shaped cloudImage from Pixabay In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the …
Jesus and the rich young man, part 5 — Matthew 20:8–16
The Kings Instructions Advent 2021 This is the second part of a parable and also a continuation of Jesus talking about money following a meeting with a rich young man. I'd like to think that this parable, before it was written in Greek, was a poem of Jesus. Grape harvestPicture by Larry Koester on Flickr …
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No escape — Matthew 19:1-2
The Kings Instructions Advent 2021 There is a pattern emerging. Jesus has something to do but the pressure of the crowds and their expectations of who they thought Jesus is is preventing this from happening. Jesus crossed over the River Jordan to escape before, the crowds followed before and Jesus healed their sick before. A …
“Oxytocin didn’t help kids with autism.”
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 …
Where do I go from here?
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 …
Making an ass of myself 