Today I was given a Fridge Magnet. It’s something that’s going to go in my “Rainy Days and Mondays” file. It was the simplest of gifts, yet the story behind it was… well, huge. Let me start somewhere that could be thought of as the Begining. Last Week, I preached a Sermon. It was a simple Sermon, about taking time to enjoy the Peace of the Lord. It was a sermon that said that the next time your somewhere, just taking a look at creation, take some time to rest on... Read Full Story

Sometimes you come across some wonderful views of the Bible. Things like the “Top Shelf” Nature of it, or some-one coming up with an brief, but surprisingly accurate (from a certain point of view) praise of the Bible. Enjoy here Also, Jews sank the Titanic.* ~BX *Note: It’s a joke. I thought it was funny. Read Full Story

As you know by now, Jan Moir, a columnist of the Daily Mail has written a hateful article on the death of Stephen Gately. She insinuates that being Gay is what caused his tragic death. I figured there was no point putting up something as the news broke, ever man and his cyberpet was doing that. I figured that I’d wait to see if time would calm me down, so that I didn’t publish a post full of spitting bile. It has now been nearly 7 hours since I found out, and I’m still angr... Read Full Story

Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6, NRSV This is one of those lines that quite annoyes us liberals. It seems to portray a very narrow-minded view of God, and not one that sits quite happily with our view. Indeed, it was a topic of some small discussion at a lecture last Friday. I personally have been struggling with this statement, so often used by the American Evangelical Conservatives to prove that those t... Read Full Story

The black van pulled up to the farm house. James leaned forward to look at it, past Marcus, the driver. “You know, in all those films, that would be a wooden house, not a think stone walled house, with doors that look so sturdy you need a battering ram to get through them” “Dem’s de breaks man” “So, into the breach then” “Yup” “How do we know that it’ll still be in there” “we don’t” James looked at his c... Read Full Story

Susan Webster sat on her packing boxes, and looked around her now-packed house. She had lived there in a not-so happy marriage with her Husband for the past 20 years. She’s thought they were doing okay. The talking had slowed down, and he had started spending more time at work, but that was normal for a couple that had been together that long. At least, she had thought it had been. She’s resigned from her job to be a housewife. She’d expected that there would be kids, but he... Read Full Story

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Well. A week spent of “letting Go, and Letting God”. Did I learn anything? Perhaps. I think the answer is probably something lame like “the middle way”. Not that there’s anything the matter with the middle way. I think though an important lesson has been (re)learnt. As is so often with these experiments, we notice that there is room for both. That spending too much time on one side or the other is bad. And there it is, the hark back to the first year spiritualit... Read Full Story

So, today we had a Taize service. This is mostly lots of quiet meditative music, with bits being repeated, softly, gently and in harmony. Things being repeated for as long as was felt necessary, but all hte context of silence and meditative prayer. I had already been asked to serve at the ceremony, which was nothing short of… uplifting. Being as part of the experiemnt was to sit and let myself be open to God, that’s what I did. I took a quick look through the booklet for the serv... Read Full Story

So, there I was, minding my own business chatting with a friend of mine from college about our different approaches to God. I question everything, and she “let’s go, and let’s God”. As things go, she eventually dared me to try it. Just to not think about anything, not to analyse anything, but to simply let go, and let God. So, I said that I would, but only if she would spend the week questioning everything. To want to know the why’s, the how’s and the waref... Read Full Story