Downstairs at home is still pretty much a building site as the repairs from the broken water pipe are being done. The tiling is part way done. (One more day to finish all the tiling and after that there is still lots of jobs…
I don’t think I am particularly melancholy. I say to myself I’m too busy for that! 🙂 But it is true that at liminal times – doorways – when we move through something – from outdoors to indoors, from the past to the future,…
I have been listening to a devotional podcast since the ecumenical trip I went on to Israel in 2015. One of the Roman Catholic leaders shared it and I have remained a listener. I don’t mind hearing different perspectives on topics (the podcast is…
Historian Tom Holland’s travelogue at Luther Tyndale’s Reformation Celebration on Friday night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtRiddwb8s) began with a journey from Soho to Brixton and asked the question, ‘Where are the angels?’. He said he didn’t have the answers. Meandering through history, literature, art, and personal experiences,…
We need umpires to keep things going – in sport we need a quick decision so that the game can go on. Generally we accept the that competing tensions of fairness or playing by the rules, competitiveness, and a desire to win means we…
