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 …
Abandoned
I was abandoned this week. Twice. It started so well. The humans were celebrating, the male human was 60 years old, which as any donkey will tell you is seriously ancient. Well he would be on the Tuesday. But they started early. On the Friday they took me on an overnight trip to the Shibden …
History lessons
And God saw that it was good In the last blog I said that the first chapters of Genesis were not Science.If I said they were not history either I would expect a certain response, especially from conservative Christians. So let me explain. History is written by people who are there at the time. Not …
Beginnings
Do you believe in Genesis or in evolution and the big bang theory? That is a question hat is raised by both the very conservative end of Christianity, and by atheists wanting to make Christianity look ridiculous. I believe both. Or all three, grammar was never my strong point. Two things about Genesis: It was …
Why I don’t mind UKIP
News from the past week: The flood of immigrants expected from Bulgaria and Romania failed to happen, the gush was only a trickle. BNP leader Nick Griffin has been declared bankrupt, despite having an MEP's salary. 300 journalists were at Luton Airport on January 1st to meet the first flight in to Britain after the …
Making an ass of myself 