There’s the story of the young Welshman who was thinking of making a marriage proposal to two women – Blodwyn and Maria. He couldn’t decide between them and so, as a good Christian, went to pray about it at church. He knelt in the nave facing the altar and cried, Lord, Lord, should it be...
We are made in the image of God – as the Bible says in Genesis. Tzelem Elohim in Hebrew, Genesis 1:27 but also James 3 – you find it! Somehow or other we are created like God. How? Well as a species we are notoriously creative. Gardening is key in that. Joanna arrived with her...
The Sunday after Easter, you may remember, there was a baptism in church at San Pedro. The boyfriend is a Coptic Orthodox Christian from Egypt. Further South the Ethiopian Orthodox Church claim a founder of their denomination to be the eunuch baptised by Phillip in the river. Ethiopia did not exist then, the translation is...
Love me love my dog is very British, Peter Shelly had a hit with it in 1975. The nation of pet lovers. I met someone recently who’s mother had died after a period of terminal illness, and who’s dog had to be put down, suddenly. The grief for the dog seemed to overwhelm the grief...
Mostly people are very secretive about seeing things. I mean visions. Most of us – maybe all of us dream but we are mostly able to distinguish between a dream and reality. Perhaps that is why we are secretive. If we see a vision does it mean that we are mentally unstable – and who...
There are two certificates on the wall of my father’s and step mothers’ apartment, both signed by Phillip. Both were members/officers of the order of the British Empire and HRH Prince Phillip was the Grand Master. You would have had to be locked away in a cave not to know that His Royal Highness Prince...
I hate bad surprises. Who do you blame when you’ve planned everything out and things don’t go right? Someone has messed up the parcel from Amazon, the builders managed to push over a wall, the vaccinations are not coming fast enough. It might be someone obvious – or in the last resort, God, but if...
We are made in the image of God – as the Bible says in Genesis. Tzelem Elohim in Hebrew, Genesis 1:27 but also James 3 – you find it! Somehow or other we are created like God. How?Well as a species we are notoriously creative. Gardening is key in that. Joanna arrived with her brother...
One of my favourite Bible stories is the group of Greeks who find the disciples and then announce that they want to see Jesus. It’s such a reasonable request. They seek out – a man with the Greek name – Phillip. They have come to the Passover in Jerusalem along with tens, maybe hundreds of...
We are made in the image of God – as the Bible says in Genesis. Tzelem Elohim in Hebrew, Genesis 1:27 but also James 3 – you find it! Somehow or other we are created like God. How?Well as a species we are notoriously creative. Gardening is key in that. Joanna arrived with her brother...
