Life-threatening, adrenaline-fuelled sport….and ice dancing
The Winter Olympics have been fabulous — sport that is life threatening, punk tinged and edge-of-the-seat exciting. What about the…
Author: crookedshore (page 17)
Returning with a Poem
My dear friend PT sent me this poem a few weeks ago and it moved me deeply. I thought I…
Advent on the Crookedshore
When I set off on the crookedshore today it was already nearly five o’clock and we were entering the latter…
The Long Advent at EBM
This Advent is a strange one at the Mission. In recent weeks we have faced a whole series of goodbyes…
Thanksgiving Prayer Litany at EBM
I wrote the following litany for last Thursday’s Community Christmas Celebration and Farewell at EBM. ************************** Lord of our days,…
No Room – the pattern for us
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because…
No Room – the pattern repeated
Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. Heb 13:13 In the book of…
No Room – the pattern is set
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because…
The Swell Season – High Hope
This is not on their new album, but what a beaut. Picked this up on the ever excellent I am…
Abusing the Truth – the Dublin Archdiocese and 'mental reservation'
My wife told me of a cartoon she remembers from years back. The vicar’s wife answers the parsonage door to…