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Art for Art’s sake.
Sunday 19th February 2017 I was watching the BBC's The Big Painting Challenge today. This sort of programme fascinates me. When younger I though of myself as a budding artist. My O level fail said otherwise. What William McGonagall was to poetry I am to painting. But unlike McGonagall I have never produced anything I …
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40% Or did he say 40? No I'm sure it was 40% Even if it was 40, out of 150 it is a significant number, over 26%. That is the number of Psalms which are laments. I can remember the other number, the number of lamenting songs out of the most popular 150 Christian songs …
21 again
I'm 21 years old again. Actually this weekend I turned 63, but that's like being 21 three times isn't it? When I was born in the UK 21 was the age you officially became an adult. The first 21 That took me from birth through primary school (two different infant schools and then two junior …
Wise men?
They were right to do what hey did, these wise men, To go to see Herod in Jerusalem. That is where kings lived, so if you wanted to find the child born King of the Jews you would be wise if the first place you went was to the palace of the capital of Judea, where the King of the Jews lived. Even if the King of the Jews was someone like Herod.
New year revolutions
As Christians we have more in common with those with Abrahamic faith - Judaism , Islam - than we do with people of our own country and own race but who are agnostic or atheist. We should stand together and celebrate what we have in common.
The year of the negative
The year the music died Goodbye 2016 This last year has been dominated by negative news. There was the endless procession of the deaths of celebrities who died this year, for me, a strong follower of progressive rock, or prog, was the deaths of both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer …
Refugees – MAKING AN ASS OF MYSELF
A blog for Holy Innocents Day, December 28 All is calm, all is bright. Maybe it is in the sanitised version of Christmas, with a smiling ox and ass and clean straw, but not in the story in the Bibl… Source: Refugees – MAKING AN ASS OF MYSELF
The Power and the Glory
It all comes full circle. The Lord's Prayer — Part 18 The Lord's prayer finishes the way it started, with praise to the Father God. Actually, it doesn't, as neither Matthew or Luke finish their version of the prayer Jesus gave with these words. But that does not make it wrong to use it. The …
Temptation
Naughty but nice was the advert in the slogan that ran on a series of adverts run through to the 1980s. The idea that eating cream cakes being somehow foreign to me, and also it would seem to me to be foreign to the advertisers too. If you think that cream is naughty you wouldn't try …
Making an ass of myself 