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Welcome to Methodist Pilgrim
Just to add a new name to the blog roll - and it comes from Berkshire where we used to have the joy of Olive's blogging. The new Methodist blogger though is a little younger than Olive's 80 or so...
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Burning the Koran won't help
I hear that some very sick people in Florida are going to burn the Koran as some sort of anti-Islamic display. That really won't help us propagate the Gospel of Jesus to our Moslem neighbours. Why...
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Tomorrow is August
Last serious posting for a few weeks. I've set up some not-to-serious postings over the holiday period but won't be posting unless something significant happens.Tomorrow I will be preaching at City...
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Class act 1: I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Regular readers will know that I don't post in August. However this year I'm putting up a series of "songs from the sixties" that pick up the theme of social class. This is the sort of music I used to...
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Class act 2: Where do you go to my lovely?
Regular readers will know that I don't post in August. However this year I'm putting up a series of "songs from the sixties" that pick up the theme of social class. This is the sort of music I used to...
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Class act 3: Substitute
Regular readers will know that I don't post in August. However this year I'm putting up a series of "songs from the sixties" that pick up the theme of social class. They are the sort of music I used to...
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Class act 4: The streets of London
Regular readers will know that I don't post in August. However this year I'm putting up a series of "songs from the sixties" that pick up the theme of social class. This is the sort of music I used to...
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Class act 5: Eve of destruction
The last of my August collection of "Class acts". This song and video neatly sums up so much that was disturbing to young people in the 1960s. We really did believe that the world could end with little...
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Back in harness
Well August is well and truly over so we are now back in action. We had great A level and GCSE results which I can't detail as I will get into trouble around the kitchen table.I had a couple of to all...
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A little local problem
At the end of July I mentioned that we were about to start some work on our church of which I am the property steward by acclamation.Well we managed to get the roof put in and insert some new celestory...
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A little local difficulty - update
Just a note to say thank you to those who read about our lillte local difficulty. I had several very supportive emails which proved to be a great encouragement. Earlier this evening I popped into our...
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First you burn books......
The first translations of the Bible into vernacular English were siezed by the authorities and burned by the public executioner. Soon after, those proclaiming the truth found in those English words...
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Peter and the Pope
Like many people I'm not quite certain what to make of Peter Tatchell. He is variously described as a "human rights" activist and a "gay rights activist". He was a Labour Party candidate at a...
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Voting for a Labour leader
One of my little jobs over the weekend will be to make my final decision and cast my vote for the leader of the Labour Party.I must admit that this year I am finding it amazingly difficult. In every...
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Halal meat and the Mail on Sunday (you read it here first)
Amazing how slow the national press can be.Shock! Horror! Today's Mail on Sunday has an "investigation" story which has found that a large proportion of the meat sold to consumers in the UK Halal....
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Halal meat and the Mail on Sunday (you read it here first)
Amazing how slow the national press can be.Shock! Horror! Today's Mail on Sunday has an "investigation" story which has found that a large proportion of the meat sold to consumers in the UK is...
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Pope Benedict in Bearwood and the Blessed J H Newman
There probably aren't many bloggers who can say that "I had than Pope Benedict at the bottom of my garden yesterday" but that is exactly what I can say!Benedict started a "popemobile" ride through...
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I can't take the Lib Dems seriously
I know that they are now part of a government and that following a referendum on electoral "reform" they may be there permanently, but I just can't take the Liberal Democrats seriously.Many Methodists...
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