I finished transferring all our family dates – births, baptisms, anniversaries, deaths – onto our 2025 calendar this week and included some dear friends and events we don’t want to forget. Ok, I started it in January (!) but only did up to February…
My past two weeks have had their share of queues – mainly in airports, waiting for something to happen – to deposit bags, to enter the security area, to be scanned, to go through passport control, to get a coffee, to board the plane,…
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,…
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…
I said last week – and at other times – that our ears, unlike our eyes, have no lids – which, of course, means that we are always hearing. Whether we listen – pay attention – is another matter. But we also have the…
“When you’re the eldest, you’re an only child until your brother or sister is born.” True enough. I nodded and agreed. I had been having a discussion with my granddaughter about families – her mother and father’s siblings, her cousins, her grandparents – the…
