Thursday night, my wife, Linda, and I ate at the Loch Fyne fish restaurant in Leeds. I had potted mackerel followed by hake with tomato salsa. Linda had tempura soft shell crab followed by grilled bream. Well it is a fish restaurant. The food was as good as anything I've eaten. Which got me thinking …
Reconciliation
I didn't get to the Ash Wednesday service last week, delayed trains and all. but a chance remark in the sermon that day is being felt by some who were there. Wht was said is this: Lent is about reconciliation. Reconciling ourselves to ourselves. Reconciling ourselves to others Reconciling ourselves to God. With all the …
Ephesians in one verse
I recently blogged on Who Wrote Ephesians. Writing about a book of the Bible without saying anything about what the Bible or the book of the bible I was talking about. So I set myself a different task, to see if I could summarise the letter to the Ephesians in one verse from that book. …
A grand day out.
Sunday 9th March First a morning at church, then a walk into the town centre. As it was the second Sunday of the month Huddersfield has its up-market market, which is a lot less posh than it sounds, but there is always a good selection of pork pies and related things. the sausage barbecue was …
Who wrote Ephesians?
Who wrote the letter of Paul to the Ephesians looks like one of those easy questions: Who wrote Beethoven's ninth symphony. In which city is York Minster. In which county are the Yorkshire Dales? Easy, isn't it? Except that it isn't that easy. A commentary on the letter to the Ephesians says that Paul did …
The political gospel
Yesterday I mentioned that the Gospel was political. Jesus did not hold back on speaking on political issues. I don't think the conservatives of he time would have liked what he said about helping the poor - what he said about money would not please them much either. (that is conservatives with a small c …
God supports Labour.
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 …
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 …
Making an ass of myself 