The Kindness Conundrum
For me, becoming a Christian has been a lesson in humility. Or 8000 lessons. The continual realignment of my preconceptions, and the breaking down of stereotypes, and the realisation that I hold...
View ArticleThe Debrief.
A debrief? Well, I’m not exactly going to rehash this weeks palaver. We were all there. It was tedious enough for those involved; it must have been bemusing for those following along at home, to say...
View ArticleRohr and an online test. What’s not to love?
Recently, Richard Rohr’s daily email series has been about Enneagrams. Now I’d always been under the impression that they were some Scientology type science fiction thing, and had ignored them...
View ArticleEveryday Lucky.
Forgive me some self indulgence, but there’s nothing like spending a few days sick in bed to make you grateful for all the wonderful things that surround you. I get sick very very seldom, and getting...
View ArticleBlast from the Past…
I know that the ‘Was she even ever an atheist’ conversation is long behind us and noone wants to waste their time discussing it any more but this week I reconnected with a man that I dated during the...
View ArticleWhat we mean when we think about God
As far as I understand it, the idea of God being an old man with a beard who smites people either because of his own capriciousness or at the request of others, is held by two belief extremes; the...
View ArticleThe Examen and Gratitude
This was a short tutorial piece that I wrote last week. Some may find it thought provoking, although I don’t provide a lot of context as I present it as it was submitted, and the lecturer obviously has...
View ArticleSpot the Douglas Adams quote (or ‘I find it really difficult to come up with...
For some reason, this post from February 2014 has been getting a lot of hits lately. No idea why it’s being read again, but I thought I’d repost it anyway. I had a conversation with someone the other...
View ArticleJust a meme.
I love this. Maybe we should all spend more time saying ‘but hey, I could be wrong. Want to see a funny cat photo?’
View ArticleApologetics, and making disciples.
A reply to a comment that I made several years ago on UnkleE’s blog popped up in my email the other day, concerning a debate about the existence of God and the argument that rejecting god is an act of...
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