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I won’t be sorry to see the back of 2006 as it’s been a tough year for me and the family.
In January a work colleague died aged 43 leaving behind a wife and two young children. I found myself acting as a pastor to many people in the work place whowere fond of Ian. It […]
On 4th January the stationing committee meets to decide where we student ministers will be stationed as probationers. It now seems very real.
I’ve got the strangest sensation - it is like being a child once more thinking about Christmas approaching. I want the days to rush by and yet (in my glass half empty world) […]
 A friend sent me a link during Advent to something call Four Candles. I was hoping it would be to do with the Two Ronnies classic sketch. Sadly it was more a reflective thing. Not really my cup of tea but Lamplighter liked it and found it helpful. (Maybe she’ll post about it?) For those […]
I’ve been on a residential with College this weekend. Spirituality. Looking at Franciscan, Benedicitine, and Ignatian rules of life. (I may post on this at some point but quite frnakly can’t be bothered at22.00 on a wet Sunday evening.)
Anyway, we had a social evening and someone suggested that we do Singalong Sound of Music.
All 30 […]
As well as the “Don’t use the Lord’s table for your books” nonsense, something else wonderful I’ve picked up recently has been gluten free bread at communion.
Now firstly, I apologise to people who suffer from coeliac disease. I don’t know how little or how much wheat you need to react. But knowing one or two […]
I was taking prayers at college recently in a small chapel. As prayers there are informal I was seated for most of the time next to the Lord’s Table and put my Bible and book of prayers on the table. Afterwards one of the lecturers took me aside and said that this wasn’t appropriate. The […]