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Parable
Reblogged from shinystuff: the kingdom of God is like a man who buys a bargain basement shrub and plants it in his garden and when it grows it is not a small and tidy thing it is horse chestnut alive...
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Social capital & a man in a hat
Parker J Palmer (worth following) shared this link from the public square of Sadabell in Spain. Turn the sound up, watch, enjoy. It made me think …… Public gathering, public square, ode to joy and...
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Sacred places
There are no unsacred places There are only sacred places and desecrated places from Wendell Berry How to be a poet
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Ringing true
Marcus Brigstocke couldn’t quite understand why there are so many countries represented in the Olympics. He assumes that some of the countries are made up. I too kept saying “where’s that?” as the...
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Article 15
Every year Snugbury’s Ice Cream Farm entertain Cheshire with a sculpture with a good twist of humour. Last year it was the meerkat. The previous year was Big Ben. This year it’s for the team pursuit...
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Turning stones
How far skims the stone on the water? big bounces, many bounces, final skip each stone weighed with outstretched arm for howls of laughter for cries of pain. How deep gashes the body with violent...
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Now quoting
Like many I like to include a bon mot at the bottom of my emails. Currently I am quoting Janice Price from World-Shaped Mission. She writes: It is important to make ‘difference’ the beginning of the...
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Touching rock
This is from an earlier post I wrote after reading John Hull‘s incredibly moving and honest account of the onset of his blindness, Touching the Rock. He refers to the “thousands of tiny accidental...
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Hope springs …
We celebrated our wedding anniversary by going to watch the film Hope springs … It is a touching story about a couple who have been married nearly as long as we have. Their relationship has become...
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SAINTS
Reblogged from Simon Marsh: Possibly the best half-hour you spend today: The Reverend Dr Richard Lischer delivers a sermon entitled “God’s Faculty” (All Saints) at Duke University Chapel. The sermon...
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Last Beatitude
Our celebrity culture even affects how we celebrate the saints. The phrase “all saints” often only brings to mind the celebs and heroes, rather than those who have grown in holiness in quiet and less...
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Ero Cras
The Antiphons are one of the cool features of Advent prayer as Christians look forward to the coming of the Kingdom of God. There are seven Antiphons. They all begin with “O”, which is then followed by...
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No comment
In Leaving Alexandria Richard Holloway recalls Virginia Woolf’s tract Three Guineas (originally published in 1937) in which she contrasts the private house (woman’s sphere) with public life (man’s...
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Preparing for responsible companionship
Theological perspectives have changed. Tonight I am meeting with our “Readers’ Council” to hear their concerns about their “Continuing Ministerial (Professional) Development”.These changes in...
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The Monday morning question
The whole globe is shook up, so what are you going to do when things are falling apart? You’re either going to become more fundamentalist and try to hold things together, or you’re going to forsake the...
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A Single Seed
Reblogged from Meanwhile, Melody Muses...: The trick is to know what to discard, for husks do not good bedfellows make. A discerning mind will swallow only what is digestible, tossing overboard what...
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