Some friends of mine in the USA sent this photo to me a few months ago and I’ve only just got around to sharing it with the world. I presume this is well-known in the USA, but it certainly brings a new slant on the phrase ‘Fresh Expressions’ for those of us in the UK. [...]
Last night saw the debut of BBC2′s new comedy drama ‘Rev’ with Tom Hollander. Tom plays Rev Adam Smallbone, a new Vicar in an inner-city parish, with a standard array of peculiar characters orbiting Hollander’s star. In rev-iewing it now (oho, see what I did there?), I guess I give it a cautious thumbs-up. 6.5 [...]
On a personal level, I am about to embark on my once-every-four-years month-long trial of both tortuous nervousness, mixed with moments of sheer joy and hope, culminating in bleak disappointment and despair. Yes, the FIFA World Cup is here again. As regular readers will know, I’m a football fan. In fact, for once, I have [...]
Nearly a year ago, I finally made a move to the dark side (or the light depending on your perspective) and bought an Apple Macintosh computer. After years and years and years of being a Windows user, I basically got fed up with the viruses, the clunky way Windows operated. I needed a new machine [...]
Late last week, I visited our local cinema with a small but growing group of men from our church to check out one of the latest releases. In this instance, we found ourselves watching The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, written by Gary Whitta and directed by the Hughes brothers (who [...]
As a Curate, along with the rest of my mentor group of Curates, I’ve just finished reading David Bentley Hart’s 2009 book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I must admit that it’s not the sort of book that I would have naturally chosen to read if my mentor group had not [...]
David Keen has been highlighting the activities of the UK Border Agency today and, in particular, a story written by Paul Vallely writing in the Independent about the detention of children by that agency and the impact on their mental health. 1300 children were held in immigration centres in 2008-9 here in the UK. Moreover, [...]
If you aren’t one of the cognoscenti in the UK Christian publishing industry, you may not have thought much of the announcement last month that IBS-STL is up for sale. IBS-STL (International Bible Society and Send the Light who merged a few years ago) are not immediately apparent to the average Christian buyer of books. [...]
With a h/t to Rob, I wanted to highlight this video from U2′s recent release I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight. Apart from the clever idea and the technical excellence of the production, I loved the idea of the Prodigal in this video.
On Monday evening, my training Incumbent will be licensed to his new parish and thus complete his transition into his new post as Diocesan Director of Ordinands and priest-in-charge of a new parish about 20 minutes away from here. Even though he moved about a month ago and has been off the scene, in terms [...]
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