This week I wore my ‘ELCE hat’ a bit more prominently than usual. I attended two meetings in London as the ELCE’s Vice Chairman (and that title still generates a somewhat confused glaze of the eyes when people hear it). Since the ELCE joined…
(Spoilers ahead) I finally got round to seeing the latest Star Trek movie (Star Trek: Into Dark-ness). Yes, I’d watch it again. It is very good but not, for me, ‘wow’! This ‘parallel universe’ builds on the original 1960s Trek storyline and so you’re…
We make links and associations all the time. It is part of the way we remember and categorise people. Someone always likes Pizza or Chinese food. He’s into football (but which code?!) or basketball or the game ‘played in heaven’ (rugby!). She’s always talking…
On Thursday I was involved in two inspections. At Westfield House we had the British Accreditation Council come and visit. There were observations, interviews, and going through file upon file. Then in the evening at T S Fox, the Sea Cadet Unit in Mildenhall,…
I think I forget the power of words at times. That’s not a good thing in my ‘line of work’. At a foundational level, all I use are words. Of course, they are to be about the Word (made flesh). My creativity is not…
‘Oh, that’s a bit young!’ I was reading the accompanying paperwork that came this week with my registration as an approved marriage celebrant in Scotland. My limited experience of solemnising weddings in different countries knows enough to check the ‘fine print’ because each country…
I know I jokingly say at times ‘Put two Lutherans in a room and you’ll get three opinions’. If you can’t have a dig at ‘family’ then life’s pretty serious. The trouble is that family squabbles can be serious. In relation to church squabbles…
I was in Scotland driving to Livingston when I saw the all the red … what? Cotton wool on legs? Sheep with big red jumpers on them? (Seems unnecessarily redundant.) As I got closer I could see that they were just sheep but sprayed…
I’m writing this less than 48 hours after last Sunday’s service – after preaching on the ‘resurrection reality’ as seen in John turning around to see Jesus standing among the lamp stands holding the seven stars in his hand. Trying to understand Jesus (and…
Perhaps it’s because I’m not British … well, I didn’t grow up here. Or maybe it is because I’m a Lutheran and whether in Australia or here, that is part of being a very small group. So I read with interest and perplexity the…
