I conducted the D-Day Remembrance at Mildenhall last Thursday at the cenotaph. There was a small gathering from the community, nine wreaths to be laid (so not many at all), and four Sea and Royal Marine Cadets were able to be there from school…
I didn’t remember the incident at all. I had no neurons recalling rudeness or being treated with disrespect. I couldn’t even summon up emotional memory of hurt or frustration or even anger. Nothing. Zilch. The only evidence that something did occur to me and…
This week I came across a speech President Richard Nixon didn’t make. It was prepared for him just in case the Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong and ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, were not able to leave the moon and thus they would die there with no…
We are still ‘pandemic sensitive’ I think. We are more used to masks than ever before and will wear them more often now. (I still carry some with me on my travels.) Perhaps we still wash our hands that bit extra or more often….
The topic of blasphemy and public sensibilities – or is it sensitivities? – what is the difference? – ebbs and flows like a long tide, it seems to me. Currently in Australia there are some debates happening about a particularly gross comment about Jesus…
A parent knows – especially after the first child – not to have any illusions of childhood innocence. One word parents don’t teach their children is ‘Mine!’. I’ve heard it said that you could put two children in a room each with an identical…
We have been reading our way through Revelation – that last book of the Bible that can generate many questions and strong feelings – at Redeemer and also during Compline. Everyone seems to know that Martin Luther wasn’t a fan (“my spirit cannot accommodate…
I was driving home up the M11 at night and forgot about the roadworks. I’ve been caught by them a few times now. You’d think I’d learn! The diverted ways are either to the west via Cambridge or to the east past Stansted Airport…
Persevering in Prayer I was waiting for Charlotte at Heathrow. I was with many people who were keeping an eye on the wide doors through which people who have flown in, gone through passport control, and the luggage claim come. The people waiting are…
It has been an interesting week – with a combination of the usual and the unusual. When I want to wake up in the morning, I set two alarms. I have some preset alarm times – press a button and it’s set but I…
