When I went on the church leaders’ Tantur trip to Israel in 2015 with its lectures and sightseeing, I remember going to the Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church in Jerusalem to see the church and hear a presentation and the first thing said to us,…
If you had to pick two people from your congregation that best look like angels, whom would you choose? Two young girls or two burly men? My guess is that we would choose the girls rather than men who look like bouncers! There is…
My time in Edinburgh was very nice. My paper on the Lutheran understanding of the Two Kingdoms was received variously – with interest, with disagreement, with ‘we must think more about this’, and always with politeness at the Anglican Lutheran Society biennial conference. I…
A few weeks back, I think it was because I was so much in the car, I listened to the Bible being read out loud in the car. I hadn’t ever done this before. As someone who reads the Bible ‘for a living’ both…
In my reading, there are times when reading in centuries past, I read something and do a mental fist pump – read with a big ‘yes!’ in my mind. The perspective matches my perspective now or is an insight I don’t recall having and…
A pale cat has decided it likes to spend the day under the laurel hedge. I don’t know where it has come from or where it goes in the evening but I get a sense that it likes to roam. I wonder what it…
She was lurking with intent. I hadn’t paid much attention. Nevertheless I had taken only a few steps out of the room into the corridor when the nurse came straight up to me. She seemed a little anxious, nervous even, maybe upset and apologised…
I said last week – and at other times – that our ears, unlike our eyes, have no lids – which, of course, means that we are always hearing. Whether we listen – pay attention – is another matter. But we also have the…
“When you’re the eldest, you’re an only child until your brother or sister is born.” True enough. I nodded and agreed. I had been having a discussion with my granddaughter about families – her mother and father’s siblings, her cousins, her grandparents – the…
I conducted the D-Day Remembrance at Mildenhall last Thursday at the cenotaph. There was a small gathering from the community, nine wreaths to be laid (so not many at all), and four Sea and Royal Marine Cadets were able to be there from school…
