All posts in category Christianity

Uganda

A shout out to my inlaws who have been living in Uganda for the last year… you can read what they have been up to. Paragraph alert! They are back in 5 weeks, hooray!

Care Swear

If the response to swearing (where legitimate in regards to: describing ‘a truly shit experience) is that: “the word ‘shit’ let me know I’m still in the real world” then there is something remarkably wrong with people (and by people here I mean Christians) who get hung up on ‘saying the right thing because it’s [...]

7. Heaven

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground – Dante Alighieri It’s totally naff that the ‘heaven’ theme is number 7. I hate cliches. We do walk around with our eyes on the ground. Sometimes I think that my eyes aren’t anywhere at all, so [...]

Grace be with you

Perhaps we all hang on to some odd things from our childhood,  I have a great appreciation for a musician my parents were in to (I’m not sure I actually enjoyed it when I was younger)-  the youtube clip is a bit feral (fashion/glasses/context/filming/sound), so here are the lyrics. They are simple and true. Based [...]

The myth of results

I’m terribly sorry to have stolen a whole whopper of a quote off Simon Moyle (and consequently Thomas Merton, oh whom I am rather a fan) but this is too valuable not to share. On February 15 Forest wrote that he was in a bleak mood; no one seemed to be listening to CPF (Catholic [...]