Don't Leave Your Brain at the Door

Do you ever mishear something and think it made more sense than what was actually said? Well this happened to me when I was listening to th...

This morning this headline caught my attention and made me stop and think: Los Angeles archdiocese pays $10m to settle abuse cases  (Read...

A Thought Prompted by the Book of Tobit Fairly recently someone asked me if I read the Bible and to my answer of 'Yes' they repl...

When you go to a service in a church with a very different background to your own do you see the dancing gorilla?  Yes I know that sounds m...

Today I saw this headline "Pope Benedict XVI posts first tweet in Latin" and it caught my attention rather more than I expected. ...

There are many things that I like and love about communal church worship but there is one thing that drives me mad - it's the amount of...

Do you ever cringe at a word or phrase in church? I know I do; I cringe at the start of the Lord’s Prayer when we say “Our Father.” ...

For a while I have been completely without an idea to write a poem (prayer/mediation may be more accurate) so when an idea popped into my h...

I have been very lucky as the one time I have met and talked to one of my sporting heroes I found a charming modest man; Gareth Edwards.  ...

Today I went for a swim at the gym and struggled up and down the pool for 15 minutes. The last time I went for a swim I swam for a mil...

Last Sunday (8 th July 2012) I did something I’d never thought I’d do in the first 56 years of my life – I was confirmed in an Anglican c...

For me living with depression is something I have had to get used to; it will always be with me.  Medication is definitely helping but the ...

I was reading another blog ( http://sallysjourney.typepad.com/sallys_journey/ - well worth a visit) and the words "Do not be Afraid...

Back in May this year I was walking through a local park when a voice told me to "Turn aside and look at that tree."  I stopped in...

This post could well be titled Greenbelt 2011 Part 2 as it is about a talk I went to at Greenbelt and the book I have just read as a result....

This week I read 2 stories and I immediately saw that they were linked.  Not that the authors had any intention of collaborating it's ju...

Do you ever look back at something and think "Gosh, that was convenient" when something suddenly goes right? That happened to me t...

Many years ago when I was at school (I left in 1972) I heard talk of something called the ecumenical movement whose aim was to bring all the...

Last night at house group we were looking at the baptism of Jesus; a subject I have struggled with for years.  You see as a Baptist I view b...

Rob Bell’s book Love Wins seems to have kicked up a lot of interest/discussion/name calling/heresy hunting about Universalism so I though...