If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! ” To those who win the victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives [...]
Half still to go
Real Live Preacher is in pain. Spare a thought for him.
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
The blurb for this book caught my eye :
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number of weird mysteries and involved in a drama she only partly understands.
Some crime or catastrophe in the past still [...]
Slightly Homoerotic?
I am currently reading Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - and it has solidified something in my mind that I have often thought and never discussed much:
The miles of difference between sitting at a stadium rock gig and being in the mosh pit at the front.
They are two distinct experiences. I can [...]
Once again tears
Real Live Preacher manages everytime to touch my innermost soul.
Moses and the Quizzing Generation
“When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your children, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.”
Deuteronomy [...]
The Grey Havens of Matthew 10:40-42
The sermon in church this morning was called “War and Peace” and was based on the famous passage of Jesus where he says that he did not come to bring “peace” but the “sword”. Not the first thing you think of with Jesus but historically accurate nevertheless. Our minister also read the remaining part of [...]
On the Death of a Relative
She was never “involved” with Jesus. I use that phrase “involved” to avoid the pantheon of evangelical cliches that describe someone as “saved”. She couldn’t stand the botheration of whatever Gospel gunners turned up at her nursing home to run the Sunday service. She wasn’t always polite about it. That’s not [...]
