Most of the time we don’t think much about drinking water. It is just there. It comes out of the taps when we want. I’ve grown up with water rationing in the summer but that was only making the gardens thirsty or not washing…
You feel for people who are doing it tough. I think particularly of refugees. And I’m not persuaded at all that using other names or terminology to describe them helps anyone since if someone claims refuge or sanctuary from us then that is how…
Eavesdropping … G: If robots become self aware, will they have any need of religion? G: I don’t know. It would be weird to get to know your makers and then surpass them. G: I think that’s called growing up with your parents. G:…
I had four traffic jams in four days this week. They ranged from the slight delay to the appointment-missing-day-reshuffling kind. There is little you can do when you see a series of red lights on the road in front of you. Historically I would,…
The baptism of Jesus has got to be regarded as significant since the four writers of the Gos-pels each spoke about it. Martin Luther reflecting on Matthew’s account where a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well…
Welcome to the beginning of 2016! I trust we will look back on it as one in which we’ve grown closer to God through Jesus. Of course today isn’t the beginning of 2016 – there’s already been 2 full days of it (or 48…
Coming back from Ipswich I was flagged down on the A1101. I knew there was a problem. Cars at that angle off the road, down the incline, between the trees are not evidence that all is well. I stopped and all was well –…
“We need to go back to the time of the Apostles: they faced a pre-Christian world, and we are fac-ing a largely post-Christian world. When Paul wants to summarise the essence of the Christian message in one sentence, he does not say, “I proclaim…
So much to do, so little time. Or maybe I’m just getting old(er)! We’re into our new church year and people are already planning most of 2016 in the world. Among Lutherans world-wide there’s a prel-ude – a bit of a drum roll –…
In the 1970s after the time of the first Star Wars film there was a line about “You know you’re a Lutheran when … you hear ‘May the Force be with you’ and you reply, ‘And also with you’!”. It seems that these days…
