Mary Karr
I’ve been reading Mary Karr’s Sinners Welcome for the past few months and enjoying her vivid directness. How about this…
Author: crookedshore (page 68)
Being Middle-aged and In the Church
I’m pretty sanguine about the church. I’ve been through the kinda teenage rebellion, done the revolutionary bit where I fought…
Thin Places
A few years ago Radio 4’s Sunday programme ran an interesting poll. They invited nominations for the Nation’s favourite spiritual…
Materialism
A further post from‘Listening Post’! Derek Poole made the following comment, that the mission of the church in the world…
Blogging
Thanks to the urgings of peregrinatio I’ve signed up to ‘The Daily Scribe’, a self-proclaimed ‘research portal to the best…
It IS about the Bike!
Relaxing at home tonight with a beer and a football game between Italy and USA. How come Italy always turn…
Angola Football
Watched the second half of the Mexico/Angola match tonight and was delighted to see Angola claim a point, and not…
Word Made Flesh
‘Listening Post’ was an opportunity to consider in creative ways the way of being Christian in the world, particularly as…
Listening Post
Spent most of last week at the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland‘s 2006 Summer School ‘Listening Post’. It’s a…
Addendum
Further to the last post, J B Priestley is reported to have said: “To show a child what once delighted…