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A shards of glass angel
Well I suppose it's not surprising given that most of it is made from transparent glass that this little angel I bought at the Nidaros Cathedral today is almost invisible. As is the way with cathedral...
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Exterminate him?
No of course not. However, I do live with a man who thinks Daleks are cuddly toys just look at how this one makes him smile. I think this is probably the reason that he keeps on saying that we've had a...
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Your turn to spot the Dalek!
Sorry that is very unfare, we all know the Dalek is the stylish one in black and silver. Dr B is the intelligent one with unknown powers of conjuring up trains from the Thomas Cook railway timetable...
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Mao's Great Famine - the redundancy of courage or the arbitrary banality of...
On the last day of our holiday I read in almost a single sitting Frank Dikötter's brilliant account of Mao's so-called "great leap forward" between 1958-1961. Mao's Great Famine makes for fairly...
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Norwich, a wedding, sunshine, and reception in the cathedral cloisters
Daniel and Annie said yes to one another on Saturday. It was a glorious day in Norwich and an enjoyable day of liturgy followed by cream tea in the Cathedral cloisters.
View ArticleTransgressive fragments: crusts of exile, hope and unity ... a sermon
Transgressive fragments: crusts of exile, hope and unitySermon preached on 5 September 2011 at the Ecumenical Centre, GenevaTexts:Exodus 12:39; Matthew 13:33(This text is unabridged and rather longer...
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The beautiful chapel chez les Diaconnesses de Reuilly - starlight, perfect...
I am about to move to Paris and take up a new job with the Federation of French Protestant Churches, more about that soon! I shall move in just over two weeks, tomorrow I get to see the appartment I...
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Playful wisdom - transgression and mysticism at feminist theology
I have come home from tonight's feminist theology group richly blessed as ever and laden with gifts, including a copy of Grace Jantzen's A Place of Springs. I am so delighted! I also got some very...
View ArticleAn attempt at some kennings "en français"
What follows is a list of some my attempts at kennings in French. It's not a form that should work in a romance language but it was helpful for our feminist theology group last night and made us think...
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Our favourite coffee cups
Sadly all but one of our favourite coffee cups have now lost their handles. I was given them by Tante Lotte nearly thirty years ago so I suppose they have seen sterling service, and even then they...
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So I should be ... but instead I am involved in many forms of perfect...
Well I should be packing, getting organised, doing all sorts of things to clear my desk, finish writing projects and get ready to move to Paris. So of course instead of doing any of that I am actually...
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Putting part of the puzzling ecumenical picture together
My great WCC colleagues Marc-Henri Heiniger and Muriel Bataclan invited me to talk about the history of the ecumenical movement to group of people from specialised ministries who are at Bossey for some...
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Beauty, surprises and the generous liturgy of friendship and prayer ...
It had not been easy to find a date to go out for a drink together, and I was quite surprised that I was expected at the ecumenical centre reception for 17.00, I even got an sms reminder. Wow we must...
View ArticleThis is what happens when you spend your life taking tomatoes out of...
For a long time I never ate raw tomatoes, then in my late 20s I got quite partial to the little cherry tomatoes and nice ripe vine tomatoes in salads. I Rome I got slightly obessesd with the very sweet...
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Evening prayers for justice and peace
I wandered around the house in a rather desultory attempt to think about things I might need in Paris and ended up putting a mainly rather pretentious choice of books into my case - and also managed to...
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Ouff! So, perhaps now back to the blog ... of ecumenical springtime ...
Well, this evening it seems to be happening. I seem to feel that I have at last properly arrived in my new "home" in Paris. Finally the internet is working (getting a phone line installed took two...
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Shush! I have become an ecumenical bureaucrat
So it has happened. I have become an ecumenical bureaucrat. I suppose I'd like to think I'm a rather unlikely bureaucrat, (though I am a good administrator, that's not the same thing). I suspect my...
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Doing one track ecumenism, two track ecumenism or one and half track...
Dr B and I have escaped Ferney Voltaire and Paris and we are in the glorious city of Assisi. Of course we travelled by train - wonderful! Difficult to even begin to describe how lovely and fascinating...
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Printemps et oecuménisme at the DEFAP's "Le Monde est chez toi!"
At lunchtime today I got back from theDEFAP Forum which has been taking place in Rouen over the weekend. It was a splendid, fun and well organised event with a great ambiance and took place in Rouen's...
View ArticleSermon at the funeral of Gertrude Anna Stranz
Sermon for the funeral of Gertrude Anna Stranzpreached on Maundy Thursday April 5th 2012, at St Oswald's Church Croxley Green, just a day before Gertie's 90th birthday. She had spent the last decade of...
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Remembering feisty lives of those history almost forgot
I'm at the German Protestant Kirchentag in Hamburg. It is as always, brilliant, stimulating, prayerful.And this is the way it goes, I receive insight from others ...Dr B attends a Bible study given by...
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Buy a book against the luxury of hopelessness
So one of the joys of Germany are the bookshops, and one of the joys of the Kirchentag is the huge bookshop. I love this poster – Faith needs books! Fortunately even with a large suitcase I cannot buy...
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A sermon from Korea on Luke 19
Sermon preached at St John’s Anglican Church, Busan during WCC 10th Assembly as part of the weekend congregational visits to local churches(You can read mor about how I got on in this friendly local...
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