Author: stuart

  • You got up at what time?

    This time two weeks ago I was on a train near Carlisle. Not an inspiring place to be, but on the way to a far better place… Glasgow , after that Oban (for a night) and eventually later the next day to Iona. Getting up at stupid o’clock to catch the early train to Crewe…

  • Stepping aside

    John Robinson wrote in Honest to God on prayer, that some people are Kronos and some kairos – I guess I must be kairos because more often than not recently I have been forced to my knees in desperation. Salvation has come though in the shape of the chaplaincy at the university. joining their evening…

  • Square Peg, Round Hole

    Now I think that we must realise that some people like the round hole and no amount of glue and extra peg will make it square…

  • Apathy…

    You would think would you not that those within the churches (even those without a full understanding of a social gospel) would be falling over themselves to try to support the poor, needy etc. Fair-Trade it seems is a bit taboo, It’s a good idea, but I don’t want any… I don’t want anything to…

  • Wedding

    I have now been to two civil wedding ceremonies… The first was let me say, lacking something! (having only been to church weddings, Mendelssohn, hymns choirs bells etc, all the romantic trimmings.) So yesterday’s civil ceremony was a little on the odd side as actually I thought it was really good. The vows were honest…

  • Consider This

    Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others. ~ Groucho Marx ~

  • From The Thief of Time

    “Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past.  Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore he said, the only appropriate state…

  • Romanticism

    Cycling slowly along the Taff, river bubbling happily along in no hurry, just like me today. It’s half term, kids out of school, you might think there would be a riot at home, but no, not too bad! Two hours of blissful Christology, and off to the library for a little light reading on myth…

  • An important lesson

    Remember always when volunteers are required in church to keep your head down and do not make eye contact! I repeat, keep head down and do not make eye contact! Making eye contact may result in bad things happening – like air guitar. No, not me, I kept my head down and didn’t make eye…

  • Waiting

    Waiting