Sep 15, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News
PURPOSEFUL WAITING …FAITHFULLY PRESENT I wonder, how you are with waiting? I would guess that for those of us who use public transport waiting on a bus or a train can, not only be frustrating but, seem like wasted time. Indeed, oftentimes waiting can seem like wasted...
Sep 9, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
How do you sleep? To be honest I am grateful to be one of the “out-like-a-light” types, though my wife worries that I would sleep through a burglary conducted by the pipes and drums of the Scots guards. This week we are thinking dreams and the apocalyptic visions of...
Sep 1, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
I am enormously impressed by Daniel and his friends, and their resilience through the trauma of being torn away from their homes and exiled to Babylon at a young and very impressionable age. They didn’t let that experience result in a root of bitterness against the...
Aug 25, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
Déjà vu I vividly remember walking into the living room a number of years ago and being greeted by a four-year-old who, proudly pointing to the large scrawl of dark blue felt pen all over the cream painted wall, declared, “Look, Mum, Mene, Mene, Tickle, Parsnip.” I...
Jul 7, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, News, QPLive
Build Up I recently watched a documentary on Ernest Hemingway and a segment in the programme made me think about New Testament descriptions of church. The segment was about Hemingway’s friend, the French artist and father of impressionism, Paul Cézanne. The...
Aug 5, 2020 | News, QPLive
“The new normal”. It’s a phrase which has become widespread as people try to predict what a world upturned by COVID19 will look like. It contains a real tension as we find ourselves caught between the desire to return to normal life as we knew it and the opportunity...
