I weep for the people of Charleston, South Carolina, and I weep with the people of Charleston, South Carolina. The news this last week was shocking. On Wednesday a young white man attended the Bible study at iconic black church, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, after being there for an hour he pulled out a gun …
Two greats
More from the Holy Trinity Huddersfield church weekend (and a picture from the Rydall Hall grounds, I liked the moss on this stone). The overall theme was that the church is suffering from amnesia. The church has forgotten what it is that it is supposed to be doing. We looked at two greats Jesus told …
What has God done for you?
What has God done for you in the last five years? This was a question asked at Holy Trinity church Huddersfield's church weekend in Cumbria, at Rydal Hall. Left is the view from our window. It was twinned wo a question about what is your testimony, which I have also put on this blog, in …
Looking Forward to Sunday
I can't explain what happened last Sunday. I really can't. Yes it was Pentecost, but the whole thing was so low key, there were no real belt-'em-out hymns chosen, it was like a 1970s or '80s retro worship service. The service introduction did not help. Were we invited to worship God or something we got …
Ludlow
It really is this quaint.
MasterGear
The BBC has announced the new presenter for Top Gear, following the departure under a cloud of controversy of Jeremy Clarkson. Mr Clarkson's replacement is to be MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace. The parallels are obvious. Both programmes had a revamp with a more shoutier presentation style, MsterChef in 2001 and Top Gear in 2002, an both …
It isn’t all about me.
It isn't all about me. It isn't all about me and Jesus either. I'm tying up loose ends here. In Lent I worked most of the way through the Book of Hebrews, and there's just the last chapter to look at. Here it is. Before you read on remember that the book of Hebrews was …
… and rest
Ahhhhh... After blogging for 40 days in Lent, I deserved a rest. So in a reverse of the story of creation in Genesis, where God needed a rest after a hard slog of creating for 6 days, I have rested from blogging for 6 days. And on the seventh day I blog. But this thinking …
Despair
A reflection for Holy Saturday in the form of a multi-verse haiku. They saw you hanging. Taken down, taken away. Laid on a cold slab. They had hoped you'd win. Return God's land to his own: Remove the Roman. And you did nothing. In giving them no reply You let them kill you. The hope …
Betrayed
Two poems, one very old, from the Bible, and my response in verse: -o0o- For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my …
Making an ass of myself 