After church last Sunday some of the ladies suggested that I put a recipe in this section. That sounded like a good idea to me. I had to find one that wasn’t in our Ascension Drop-box cookbook.. (If you would like the link just…
Pastor George has only been gone a few days and already I miss him. In fact I appreciate all he does for our church family even more right now. Before he left he sent many emails (with attachments), left two bags of materials, and…
I’m sure it is a form of masochism that I read The British Lutheran after it’s gone to the print-ers. It always happens that afterwards I find a mistake or two … or more. (Aarrgghh!) It’s not that I don’t read it beforehand ……
I ‘watched’ the first game of the Bledisloe Cup 2014 – rugby between Australia and New Zealand – yesterday. By ‘watched’ I mean I watched the computer screen and the live commentary, the scores, and the Twitter feed that scrolled down. I watched the…
The dislocation of Christians and other religious minorities from Iraq continues to unfold. The reli-gious landscape of the Middle East is, it seems, shifting sands. We expect constant movement if religions are evangelistic even as we might deplore some of the methods used to…
My neighbour is doing a school project for his final year about whether the British Government should change the law so that the constabulary are regularly armed with handguns. Part of the project involved getting people’s opinions and he asked me whether, as a…
Where I grew up in Sydney, the Lutheran Church was largely unknown. If it was known then it was the ‘migrant’ church or the ‘German’ church. The four pastors I had before I left home and moved into the city were American, Dutch, Dutch,…
Charlotte and I enjoyed our evening at the ‘Monty Python Live (mostly)’ show. We, with the thou-sands there, laughed and enjoyed the memory lane experience. We knew many of the sketches – knew the lines – knew the jokes – and we still laughed….
We enjoyed exploring Dorset last week. There was the scenery, Thomas Hardy, the Fleet Air Arm Museum, numerous picturesque little towns, narrow lanes, lots of greenery and hills(!), Chesil Beach, and our first time up close at Stonehenge. We also tend to keep a…
From ‘Straight Answers to Awkward Questions’ on Lutheran Radio UK – What is faith? Christian faith is what God desires for all people for by it we are saved; we are forgiven, and we have eternal life – life with God now and forever….
