How’s the weather for you? How would you describe it? Warm? Hot? Pleasant? Unpleasant? Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week recorded the highest temperatures three days in a row this year. Friday’s UK maximum temperature was, I believe, 32.7ºC in Suffolk, and the…
I have been known to challenge Confirmation students to find a worldly analogy to explain the Trinity – one that I can’t pick ‘holes’ in – and the ‘prize’ is the biggest sweet in the supermar- ket that their parents will let me buy….
I thought I knew Australian history growing up. I knew a version of it – not incorrect as such – but definitely not nuanced or the ‘full story’. The ‘skeletons were in the closet’ about some things – particularly in relation to the indigenous…
It’s been a while … but I did read something recently and thought ‘very good’ and wanted to share so here goes … Luther’s view of truth is inseparable from his doctrine of the Word of God. Without entering into the various inter- pretations…
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…
