It is now two months since I arrogantly launched myself onto the internet with the following three stated objectives: – to publicise my novel and my invented world; to enjoy self-expression; to glorify God. The story so far: the site People have been very nice about the...
I am pleased to welcome my first guest to this blog. I asked my good friend and fellow churchwarden Clint Redwood to post his views on what is possibly his favourite subject. Star Wars – The Force Awakens Reviewing anything like Star Wars presents possibly as much...
The meeting of the leaders of the various provinces of the Anglican Communion, which took place last week, has been very confusing to follow. The confusion even extends to the name “Primates’ Meeting”, which is frankly not helpful for anyone with a normal sense of...
Last Friday, the meeting of the Anglican leaders called by the Archbishop of Canterbury broke up without a formal split in the Communion, and issued a statement. I am intending to post a blog about this, but am still gathering thoughts and information. In the meantime,...
Before I begin on that, here is a PS to a previous post. On 8th Jan, I mentioned Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire series, and one of his most famous characters, Mrs Proudie. Some of my readers may be old enough to recall the 1982 BBC TV series,...
Hello, people. In my “mission statement” post on 1st Dec, I said that I wanted To help people, including myself, to stay Christians by honestly facing and exploring, from within the faith and before God, the real difficulties that many of us see when we sing modern...