We were setting up the chapel on base last Sunday night for the service. The chapel is large and the sanctuary can be configured for particular styles of worship. We don’t change much – move some flowers, place the Holy Communion vessels on the…
You go away for a few days and look what happens to the place! ☺ It was interesting being in Greece on the day after the referendum. Friday was the ‘breaking news’ day of the result – and those numbers and statistics – and…
My first ‘encounter’ with sharks was when I was quite young – I don’t exactly remember when (but I’m guessing I was around 6 years old). I say ‘encounter’ because I didn’t see the shark and I wasn’t anywhere near water at the time….
So the United Kingdom will go to the polls on 23rd June about whether to remain in or leave the European Union and already the sides are forming, the arguments are being heard, and the call to decision making (already billed as the biggest…
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…
