On this day in 1952 Princess Elizabeth, in Kenya at the time, acceded the throne upon the death of her father, King George VI, and so began the longest reign of a British monarch – a second Elizabethan age so to speak. Today the…
I am sitting at home not wanting the phone to ring. I don’t want to ‘go to work’. What is wrong with me? “Don’t you want to share the love of Jesus, George?!” Well … it is true that I believe Jesus says ‘I…
I was at Sea Cadets this week and asked to sit with a group of relatively new cadets and help them plan what we might do for Her Majesty’s Platinum celebrations in June. We had a variety of weird, wacky, and worthy ideas and…
My devotional thought at the beginning of the ELCE’s Discussion Day yesterday. 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace…
I haven’t mentioned cricket much lately. 😉 As I write, the 4th Ashes Test has just begun in Sydney. When you read this, the outcome will be known. So you know the outcome of which I don’t know. I can guess and hope about…
My son sent me an article about NASA hiring theologians and asked whether I was interest- ed? Of course! I could do it ‘on the side’. 😉 It turned out to be a programme a few years back of gathering 24 theologians to look…
I had miss calculated his retirement time. I had forgotten that with leave to be taken he would be gone soon and my visit to the police station was possibly the last time I’d see him. “How long have you been in the constabulary?” “30…
It happened again recently. I hadn’t experienced it for quite a while. (I don’t get out much per- haps! 😉 ) It was a pleasant conversation with people I knew a little and who knew me less. General conversation about all sorts of things…
I chuckled and smiled and just thought that this world is an amazing place! I heard in my mind a few bars and the deep voice of Louis Armstrong singing ‘What a wonderful world’. It was night and I was driving so I couldn’t…
Eric Bogle’s song ‘The Gift of the Years’ is about an old Aussie soldier returning to a ceme- tery in a foreign land, 75 years later, talking to his friend who had died. In the song, he says: And the country that you died…
