This blog post takes the form of an open letter to Kirklees Metropolitan Council. The lower panels of the World War I memorial window in Holy Trinity Huddersfield, showing the Belgian flag to the right in the middle panel. There is a refugee crisis going on caused by people wishing to leave Afghanistan following the …
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Misdirection and wandering
Always searching Calahonda International Baptist Church, Sunday 7 October 2018 We got here, eventually. It should not have been that difficult. This was my third visit and Linda's fourth to the Costa del Sol. On the two previous visits we made together we worshipped at Calahonda International Baptist Church, styled as CIBC. The last time …
Eating your way around the world
History of Huddersfield Immigration. To eat your way around the world you do not have to spend thousands of pounds going on a world cruise. Most of your eating will be the ship food, as good as it is that will not have the variety of eating in the countries you visit. Instead you can …
Church is unwelcoming to Aspies
40 blogs of Lent - Day 32 Welcoming Autistic people to church What is church - Day 1 After wading through the messages to seven churches in Revelation, I am concluding my Lenten blogs with a look at the modern church. I will be looking at it from three negative aspects, then five positive ones. …
For Everyone
The church is for everyone. I'll start this blog with the Anglicised form of Haiku. Who is the church for? The church is for everyone: Even those you hate. Who is the church for? Orphans, widows, foreigners the poor and the destitute. What should the church do? Become good news to the poor. Become the …
Making an ass of myself 