The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
I chuckled. I fell for it. I read the tweet ‘There are two rules in life: 1) Never give out all the information’ … Yes, I looked for 2). Now I wasn’t looking for advice about life! (But I do have the view that…
Thought for the Week
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
On Friday I received, as a member of Theos – a Christian think tank based in London – the Theos Report ‘Valuing Women: Making Women Visible’ which considered the situation of vulnerable women often with multiple and severe disadvantages and increasing lack of government…
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham was a big ‘event spectacular’. As someone with an interest in puppetry – you might want to ask Charlotte why there was 2 metre high puppet hanging in the hallway of our first apartment…
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Hello. This is an unashamed plug for Lutheran Radio UK. This is the ELCE’s internet radio at https://lutheranradio.co.uk/ Occasionally here I quote a paragraph or two of something I’ve read along the lines of “I wish I had written that” and yesterday I finished…
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Earlier in July the British Government hosted the Global Freedom of Religion or Belief Ministerial Meeting for government officials from more than 30 countries plus representatives from international organisations, academia, church groups, interfaith groups, and civil society. Even though Article 18 of the Universal…
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
This week I discovered that I was a victim of identity fraud. No one was impersonating me – an old bald man wearing a clerical collar with an Australian accent 😉 – but apparently I had moved to Salford and had contacted the credit…
The Third Sunday after Pentecost
Last week’s ELCE Pastors’ Study Week – although it is only three days – is a good time of fellowship, learning, and worship. We were certainly hosted brilliantly by Westfield House – and a big ‘thank you’ to them – especially for the meals….
The Second Sunday after Pentecost
How’s the weather for you? How would you describe it? Warm? Hot? Pleasant? Unpleasant? Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week recorded the highest temperatures three days in a row this year. Friday’s UK maximum temperature was, I believe, 32.7ºC in Suffolk, and the…
The Festival of the Holy Trinity
I have been known to challenge Confirmation students to find a worldly analogy to explain the Trinity – one that I can’t pick ‘holes’ in – and the ‘prize’ is the biggest sweet in the supermar- ket that their parents will let me buy….
The Festival of Pentecost
I thought I knew Australian history growing up. I knew a version of it – not incorrect as such – but definitely not nuanced or the ‘full story’. The ‘skeletons were in the closet’ about some things – particularly in relation to the indigenous…