O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home. Since Pastor George is away I’ve been left in charge of getting the bulletin ready. I decided to work with…
At yesterday’s Remembrance Day ceremony at Mildenhall there is a brief moment for a comment or reflection. Usually this is to the school children present but yesterday was Saturday. The comment is to be brief – one point – somewhere between one and two…
Sitting in Westminster Abbey for the 500th anniversary service of the Reformation I was close to the lectern on my right and could see the dignitaries next to the pulpit but to see the altar I needed to look at a monitor to my…
It was a good week attending the Churches Together in England’s ‘Responding to the Reformation’ Conference representing the ELCE and then on Thursday attending a meeting of Lancashire Church Leaders and speaking at their service of commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation…
There is a new issue of The British Lutheran out. Finally. It has been the one ELCE task I do that gets ‘put off’ the most. While it is important, it often misses out because it is not urgent (and it is considerably time…
By the time you read next week’s ‘blurb’ my grandson will be born and probably be at home surrounded by his family and his Nanna. (Yes, Charlotte will be there – of course!) I write this trusting God that all will go well for…
Last week I wrote ‘You don’t come home all jolly and happy from a visit of battlefields …’ and you might be expecting me to begin similarly having just come home the ELCE’s synodical convention! That’s the caricature often isn’t it? That church meetings…
You don’t come home all jolly and happy from a visit of battlefields, museums, and cemeteries or walking through towns and country sides that are rebuilt yet have scars for those who look closely. We stayed at Talbot House in Poperinge (Belgium) precisely because…
I recently listened to a podcast about ‘cos play’ where people dress up in the costume of a favourite character from film or TV – often science fiction – and attend conventions and other events in character so to speak. The costumes can be…
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost 10th September 2017 I’ve been trying to regularly supply Lutheran Radio UK with weekly episodes of ‘Straight Answers to Awkward Questions’. (Sometimes the weeks just get away …!) People do send in questions – some quicker to answer –…
