I was exercised yesterday when I came across quite a controversial article saying that Jesus said he did not come to make the world a better place, rather to paraphrase 'world distraction is coming and only a few will survive'. The term 'good bloke' is in colloquial use in the United Kingdom if not elsewhere and I wanted to find what I have come to understand as a good bloke. First of all it is...
I can cast my mind back many decades when as the son of a Church of England vicar we never had much money and we went to holidays in hotels where this sort of pastoral need was accommodated. We went mainly on the South Coast of England probably because it was quite near my father’s parish which was in Streatham Common, South London. We typically went for a week. Such simple things as paddling...
I woke up this morning with such a list of things to do; I realised (again) that time management is very important, indeed key, to some sort of sanity. Today between 6:00 AM and 6:30 AM I spent time listening to Trans world radio and in particular good news broadcasting, teaching the Bible through media. It produces Christian radio programmes, podcasts, videos and literature. The minister was...
Many times people apologise to me during the day based on the rather curious argument that I am within one metre of them on the street and they think I am going to step in their way so they apologise just to make sure. I wonder if it is just a habit to apologise for one’s existence. I don’t notice this when I go abroad so I think it must be an English thing. Some apologies I listen to with more...
I often start my day at about 6:30 or 7:00 am listening to Trans world radio which is a Christian evangelical program full of exhortations and reading the scriptures and this morning in particular I was focusing on my ‘jump out at you’ department to bring me the thing to work on today. Putting it more succinctly, when I rose at about 6:30 to make my coffee, there was nothing in my mind and no...
Before I start on today's piece, I enclose a letter I have just written to the local Journal here in Midsomer Norton. I attended a talk last night here in Midsomer Norton. The results were less than I had hoped. Dear Sir Radstock museum miners talk was a wasted opportunity Following your advert in your journal I attended an evening in the Somer centre "Kilmerston Colliery history talk" organised...
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