Posts Tagged ‘ Faith ’

Fear is in the air…

… and the magazine letter is late. (as usual) Fear is in the air, you can smell it! You can see it as well, the shop assistants giving out adverts in the street for their latest offers, the new signs going up pointing to various retail establishments, information about flu precautions. We used to be afraid of Nuclear Weapons, Global Warming and Sea level rises, then we were afraid our energy supplies would run out.  After that came the fear of financial ruin at the hands of the global recession, now of course it is the turn of swine...

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A rare day out

I had the chance to be away from the pulpit today and grabbed it with both hands, well, grabbed the bike and rode before anyone could stop me!!  I was confronted by the usual low-sunday features, small congregation, (no hope of hiding then) quite reflective service, the Gospel was of course about Thomas who I notice Maggi calls ‘Honest Thomas’, a theme I like. I however, was confronted during the sermon by the arrogance of the church.  I’m sure it was not intended to come across as it did, but to me it sounded as if the preacher was...

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Legacy of shame?

To be honest, my words were a little stronger than the title here this afternoon, however after mulling things over / steaming / ranting, it became obvious that the object of my frustration could not be truthfully a generalisation – therefore the following comments are (I would dearly wish to hope, but will probably be proved wrong), specific and localised. I seem to visit a lot of people – funny that – but most are not regular church goers.  Those who profess to have a faith, are I find more often saying things like, ‘The vicar wouldn’t do this’ ...

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Random College Entry

  • Handle

    There is a door handle, on the wall, in our lecture room. There is no door attached to it!! So far the comments have been, ‘well at least we’ve got a handle on this lecture’ and ‘if we open that does the lecturer go away?’ and ‘that is one big door’ and ‘we’ve got a handle on the wall, well at least we’ve got a handle on something!’ Perhaps you have to experience this to understand it, but during two hours of pretty cloud skimming lecturing, a handle on the wall is just the most sublime image!

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