Tags: life

• jade

  Jade Goody’s death, as her life evoked much feeling. I am still staggered by the amount of vitriolic nastiness some people can pour out on blogs and in other media. I don’t know whether it comes from some sort of transferred self-loathing or some sort of bitterness about the world, but its not necessary. Goody was no victim, but a young woman who transitioned fast from tabloid whipping girl to millionaire multi-platform brand by doing what most seek to do: [...]

• a-gun-special…

  The feature is called: ‘Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!’ In it, Jeff Quinn of Tennessee, is interviewed in last weekends Guardian on the ‘Christian Minister’s’right to own a gun – How I’m glad I’m not in his parish!! Here’s what he says….. ‘I’m a Southern Baptist … if it’s written in the pages of the Bible, it’s true, and if it’s not we don’t include it in our lives. ‘I’ve got too many firearms to list them all…!!’ [...]

• lent 12

  Simply put;- Cabbages help me understand! Sounds silly but here goes…..“A cabbage needs no companions to be a perfect cabbage, but men desperately require all sorts of other people if they are to achieve their aims in life: parents, sibilings, friends, teachers, writers, musicians. Maturing, fulfilling, and happy relationships are replete with experiences of the beautiful, and no life is complete without them.” or so says Thomas Dubay, in The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet. Is my [...]

• lent 4

  I appreciate reading from a breadth of traditions: Here are some words that have been helping me in these last few days… ‘Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on you who cares for us: Preserve me from faithless fears and worldy anxieties, that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from me the light of that [...]

• Don’t

  Don’t let the idea of God remain just an idea. He calls us into a passionate life of faith, hope and love. Here,.. now,.. today…