When I went on the church leaders’ Tantur trip to Israel in 2015 with its lectures and sightseeing, I remember going to the Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church in Jerusalem to see the church and hear a presentation and the first thing said to us,…
I grew up with a sense that being a Lutheran meant that I subscribed and agreed to what the Lutheran Church taught was the Christian Faith. I like to think – and still do – that I’m not blind or naïve about these teachings…
I finally got around to the podcast I mentioned two weeks back entitled ‘Is it OK to turn your back on suffering?’. It wasn’t exactly what I expected but it was on topic enough 😉 and I was challenged to consider things I usually don’t think…
Ok, a quick question … what do the following churches have in common? Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; Evangelical Lutheran Church – Synod of France; Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium; Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Denmark; Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany; Portuguese Evangelical Lutheran…
If you had to pick two people from your congregation that best look like angels, whom would you choose? Two young girls or two burly men? My guess is that we would choose the girls rather than men who look like bouncers! There is…
My time in Edinburgh was very nice. My paper on the Lutheran understanding of the Two Kingdoms was received variously – with interest, with disagreement, with ‘we must think more about this’, and always with politeness at the Anglican Lutheran Society biennial conference. I…
A few weeks back, I think it was because I was so much in the car, I listened to the Bible being read out loud in the car. I hadn’t ever done this before. As someone who reads the Bible ‘for a living’ both…
In my reading, there are times when reading in centuries past, I read something and do a mental fist pump – read with a big ‘yes!’ in my mind. The perspective matches my perspective now or is an insight I don’t recall having and…
A pale cat has decided it likes to spend the day under the laurel hedge. I don’t know where it has come from or where it goes in the evening but I get a sense that it likes to roam. I wonder what it…
She was lurking with intent. I hadn’t paid much attention. Nevertheless I had taken only a few steps out of the room into the corridor when the nurse came straight up to me. She seemed a little anxious, nervous even, maybe upset and apologised…
