10 January 2014
by wpAdmin
0 comments
There have been mutterings in the press this week about a new liturgy that the Church of England is trying out around the rite of baptism. For example, The Telegraph proclaims: “Sin? People think it’s about sex and cream cakes, … Continue reading
8 January 2014
by wpAdmin
1 Comment
There are blogs about all sorts of specialist subjects including, as I’ve found out this week, hummus. Under the slogan “Give Chickpeas a Chance”, the Hummus Blog contains what it says on the tin: everything you could want to know … Continue reading
7 January 2014
by wpAdmin
0 comments
If there were some feasible way to travel hundreds of miles north to Stornoway, I’d love to be up there to join the people remembering Mark Elliot. Mark was a family friend, not that much older than me, who died … Continue reading
6 January 2014
by wpAdmin
0 comments
That phrase comes up over three million times on a Google search but how often do you hear it in daily conversation? I hope it came up a little in conversations around Hither Green yesterday afternoon, as it was the … Continue reading
5 January 2014
by wpAdmin
0 comments
Today is going to be a bit of a mini grand tour, revisiting South East London (where I’m speaking at my old church, HGBC, in the morning) and then a couple of stops with friends in Kent. Hopefully the weather … Continue reading
4 January 2014
by wpAdmin
0 comments
Something Jane and I are trying this month is to avoid big supermarkets. The aim is not eschew them altogether; supermarkets certainly come with ethical baggage, like the way they drive out smaller businesses and use all manner of psychological … Continue reading
3 January 2014
by wpAdmin
2 Comments
One of the gifts I received this Christmas was a cookbook called Jerusalem. Today we popped out to various shops including Rosie’s (an Iranian shop in Northway) and some of the stores down Cowley Road and collected the ingredients to … Continue reading
2 January 2014
by wpAdmin
2 Comments
First day back at work today so time to get my geek on. I now know that the Bible (*) has 1189 chapters. Furthermore, I didn’t derive that figure by laboriously counting them by hand but I set a computer … Continue reading
1 January 2014
by wpAdmin
0 comments
It is a well-worn truism that life gets faster and the years go by more quickly but is that really the case? Thinking back on 2013, it seems to have been a long span of time, packed with so much … Continue reading