Posted in Advent on 28 November, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Last chance to get in on the Advent blog love blooms bright.
Poems, thoughts, meditations, photographs. Things you create yourself, or things you would like to share.
Those who have already agreed to take part, you should get an email from me later tonight with some notes on logistics.
We have 6 people so far, and could [...]
Posted in blog on 26 November, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I’ve never been very good at history, but I do like maps. So, I was glad to hear of the Tabula Peutingeriana, a map of the late Roman Empire, which was unrolled for a rare viewing today.
The director of manuscripts at the Austrian National Library compares it to the diagrammatic map of the London [...]
Posted in blog on 24 November, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I don’t usually draw attention to charities — trusting we will all find our way to the causes we will be most committed to. But I have just read this BBC article on The London Refuge for Runaways. They provide a safe house for runaways, and let the parent’s know the child is [...]
Posted in congregation on 23 November, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I finally reached the point this week of admitting that exhaustion had won. It tried masking as a cold, briefly flirted with the idea of making me sick, kindly went away for thanksgiving dinner, then settled in with a vengeance as a headache today.
The result is a fully backed up computer system, lots of deleted [...]
Posted in photos on 22 November, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Now, you might think such an unremarkable table does not deserve blog space. And you would be right — save for this: it is the first time in my life I have managed to set the table before the guests arrived.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Posted in theology on 19 November, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I had one of those moment today when I bought something thinking, ‘I hope no one sees me’. The offending item? A Josh Groban CD. Why oh why does someone with such a lovely voice allow such backing tracks?? I blame Classic FM.
But, it has been worth it.
One of [...]
Posted in books on 18 November, 2007 | 6 Comments »
After a crazy week, Molly and I spent Sunday evening reading From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler. I had last read it in — oh, say, 1982?
If you don’t know it (which is an excusable state of affairs only for British readers), it is the story of two young children who [...]
Posted in theology on 17 November, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Molly took the TISEC curriculum into her own paws by deciding that no ordinand’s training in a rural parish was complete without a bit of midnight mousing. So we have reflected on:
critical and creative theology: practical application of the moral debate on euthanasia vs. suffering;
‘The lord God made them all’ (discuss in relation to [...]
Posted in church on 15 November, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Sr Mary Martha has a wonderful post today on birthday cake, little girl’s umbrellas and how to give children a reasonable chance of growing up in the faith.
I’m quite taken by the manger trick too.
You can ignore the most RC elements if you need to. There’s enough there even for the WWJD brigade.
Posted in poetry on 14 November, 2007 | 2 Comments »
no, not mine.
(and I suggest the person in mind omit the last stanza)
Don’t Say I Said
Next time you speak to you-know-who
I’ve got a message for him.
Tell him that I have lost a stone
Since the last time that I saw him.
Tell him that I’ve got three new books
Coming out soon, but play it
Cool, make it sound [...]
