Giles Fraser and the Incarnation
I think this interview for the Guardian with Giles Fraser speaks for itself: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/27/giles-fraser-occupy-london-st-pauls
Read On 3 CommentsI think this interview for the Guardian with Giles Fraser speaks for itself: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/27/giles-fraser-occupy-london-st-pauls
Read On 3 CommentsIt’s been a busy couple of months, but as I now have the internet working at home and the rare luxury of a free evening, I’ve decided that it’s about time my blog came back to life again, so here’s an update on life: I think I’m over my mini crisis of faith, and [...]
I’m spending Christmas loitering on the Essex/Suffolk border with TractorGirl and her family. The aforementioned TractorGirl landed in MK on Tuesday, and I’ve really enjoyed having someone to come home to after work. Yesterday, we travelled to the lands of chavs and turnips (nothing like crude stereotypes, is there? ), with a surprisingly smooth journey [...]
I’ve been making a serious effort this Advent to address something I know is a bit of a problem – my prayer life. I find it really hard to get into the habit of setting aside regular time simply to pray, whether using a daily office or simply sitting with God, not trying to do anything. [...]
From TractorGirl just now: “I will not become an informer, frozen trout or no frozen trout!” I’ll leave you to ponder what on earth that was about…
Since moving to MK, I’ve got back into the habit of going to the cinema on a regular basis, and last week decided to treat myself to Cineworld’s offer of paying a fixed amount to see an unlimited number of films a month. Cineworld are pretty good at showing movies one wouldn’t always get to see without an [...]
I come from a very ordinary background. I was born and raised on an impoverished council estate in Preston, Lancashire by two ordinary people. My mother is a housewife (and cleaning obsessive, but that’s another story… ) and my father trained as a painter, decorator and joiner before ending up down sewers (which oddly enough, he [...]
This weekend consisted of some much needed chilling out and relaxing. On Saturday, I headed to Birmingham to meet up with TractorGirl and go to a GCN gathering. We had an hour to catch up and chat before joining the others for some time praying in a church near the Bullring and then on to [...]
I’m part of a group called Bible School which meets in the home of the person who runs it on Thursday evenings. We study the Bible in the sense of looking at the background, origins and usage of it, and in the past I gather the group has also spent time wrestling with doctrinal issues. [...]