It's on the streets. It's a nativity. It's Streetivity. Young people from Holy Trinity Anglican and Gledholt Methodist churches, Huddersfield, took the Christmas story to the streets, and they had a donkey. A rather short eared donkey. A pdonkey. OK it was a pony playing the donkey. Through the streets we went, with traffic stopped …
The day God changed – part 2
When I became a Christian in 1974 I had a wonderful appetite for things to do with the faith. Church was not enough, you don't learn a lot from one ,or often two, sermons a week. Even a university Christian union once a week didn't satisfy my appetite, so it was first the Christian Union …
The day God changed
14th March 2006 was the day God changed. Or at least it was the day God changed for me. That was the day I had an accident. I blogged about it not long afterwards over on a now defunct site. That led to all kinds of questions as to what God was like. What kind …
Cutting room floor
Last June I wrote about how the humans went out on an evening in June, leaving me in the Whitby holiday apartment. And how they stumbled upon Ross Noble filming for the series Freewheeling. Well the day of the broadcast came last night. Ross went into Whitby, great anticipation in the house as they looked …
Mary the subversive.
Last Sunday the sermon at Holy Trinity Huddersfield was on the subject of the story of Mary and Martha. I enjoyed it. Pam, who was preaching, said that we should not be as hard on Martha as some have been, after all it was Martha who opened her home to Jesus. The need not to be …
More on Snapshots from Twitter
About amonth ago I republished a few tweets by Fresh Expressions from the Edinburgh vision day. But what to do with this data? It is all very well saying, "To carry on as usual in a changing world is to carry on fading away." or, "Just doing what we have always done is a commitment …
Snapshots from Twitter.
I follow the Fresh Expressions Twitter Feed. Today they have been tweeting live from Edinburgh Vision Day, the first vision day since the Church of Scotland joined Fresh Expressions. I don't know much of what has been said, watching twitter from a distance (of over 200 miles), but these are the tweets: To carry on …
A Christian Halloween?
I think I may actually offend every single church going person I know with this post. I’m not sorry. Just so we’re clear, you know – in advance. So started a blog on Halloween by TroubleFace Mom last year. And I agree to an extent. To a degree because Halloween is celebrated differently in the …
Another fine mess
Oh dear, Church of England, what have you done? Yesterday's news that the good ol' C of E were considering taking the mess they have got themselves into over the appointment of women as Bishops to arbitration cannot be good news. Not in the short term. That the CofE cannot sort out its internal wrangling …
Confidence
Confidence is something people admire, even subconsciously. there was an experiment which showed this on TV recently. A group of about 12 to 15 people were in a room with two doors. They were told that there would soon be a fire alarm and they had to leave by one door. What they were not …
Making an ass of myself 