By the time you read next week’s ‘blurb’ my grandson will be born and probably be at home surrounded by his family and his Nanna. (Yes, Charlotte will be there – of course!) I write this trusting God that all will go well for…
Last week I wrote ‘You don’t come home all jolly and happy from a visit of battlefields …’ and you might be expecting me to begin similarly having just come home the ELCE’s synodical convention! That’s the caricature often isn’t it? That church meetings…
You don’t come home all jolly and happy from a visit of battlefields, museums, and cemeteries or walking through towns and country sides that are rebuilt yet have scars for those who look closely. We stayed at Talbot House in Poperinge (Belgium) precisely because…
I recently listened to a podcast about ‘cos play’ where people dress up in the costume of a favourite character from film or TV – often science fiction – and attend conventions and other events in character so to speak. The costumes can be…
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost 10th September 2017 I’ve been trying to regularly supply Lutheran Radio UK with weekly episodes of ‘Straight Answers to Awkward Questions’. (Sometimes the weeks just get away …!) People do send in questions – some quicker to answer –…
The actress, Jodie Whitaker, is going to be the next Doctor when Peter Capaldi hands over the sonic screwdriver in the Christmas Special of Doctor Who. The announcement was important – the BBC interrupted its Wimbledon broadcast – and the WHOverse was definitely vocal….
My week has been dominated by the ELCE financial audit. We have to give an account of our-selves to the world because in the UK the ELCE is a registered charity and there are certain responsibilities that go with that status and for which…
We might have been away but we weren’t out of touch. The fire. The election. ELCE Church politics. Marriage matters. Unemployment. Health concerns. People’s choices. Good news moments. Pregnancy. Hospital. Tests. Walking in the shadow of death. Reconciliations. And more. All intertwined with sunshine,…
The ELCE’s Pastors’ Study Week has come and gone. So have the guests who joined us from Australia, Denmark, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Hong Kong and the United States – all of whom were so impressed that they said that they wanted to come again….
God’s Word today If you say “God’s Word today” most people think of the bible and they wouldn’t be wrong but the answer is not as complete as it should be. Lutherans don’t regard God’s Word as just words in a book, teachings and…
