This is one of the most famous photographs ever taken: The Blue Marble, taken on the 7th December 1972 from Apollo 17. It has been said that the pictures taken from space starting in 1946, and famously earthrise taken on Christmas eve 1968, helped to galvanise the environmental movement. It was the first time that man had seen the earth …
bHi folks, i hope you are doing ok, this week we are meeting at the Tavern and Galley at 7.30, we look forward to seeing you there. This weeks our blog is written for us by John Cooper. What matters more: what happened or what we think happened? What happened or what we remember happening? If you think that those …
My musings this week have been inspired by our conversation at Sunday at the pub last week. We talked about monsters and childhood. As we drove home I was thinking about one of my favourite children’s picture books – Nothing by Mick Inkpen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJhrFNGbwNI I trained as an early years teacher and so finding new and interesting story books was …
This week (because I promised to do a blog and have been really busy) I’m going to share with you one of the first blogs we’re going to do for Northern Shore – A sister community in Northumberland. Catching the zeitgeist, you could say this is a BFX x NSFX collab. Anyway, we will be meeting at the Tavern and …
We are at the Galley and Tavern this Sunday from 7:30pm. See you then lovely people. A few years ago a sermon I preached as part of a series on prayer ended up being the most controversial thing I’d ever done. Its subject was the word “Amen”. So, I thought, let’s give it another try 🙂. So let me start …
Hi folks, hope you are doing ok! This week we are meeting at the Tavern and Galley, 71 The Links, Whitley Bay NE26 1UE. Meeting at 7.30 for those of you who are around. This week i’m thankful that John Cooper has provided this weeks blog for us. Forgive me for a second allotment-based blog this week. I’m the type …
Here is this weeks blog! hope you enjoy it. We are meeting at the Enigma Tap on Sunday at 7:30pm see you all then. Claire and I have recently got an allotment. During half-term we started to clear it off and we had many of our neighbouring allotmenteers pop around to introduce themselves. All of them advised us to: “take …
We are looking at creativity this week and we will be meeting at the Enigma Tap at 7:30pm and everyone is welcome to come and join the conversation. Are you creative? If so, why? If not, why not? Take a moment to think and write down what you think. If you asked most people what creativity is, they’d answer making …
Hi everyone, this week we are meeting in the Enigma Tap at 7.30. Hope to see yo there. A few months ago, I had a chat with one of our BCFX family who’d had a really hard week. It got me thinking that a community like us has its benefits and downsides. And one of those downsides is that we …
Grab a coffee/ tea/ or other comforting beverage. A question to begin: When do you feel welcome? What elicits that warm, relaxed, weight removing felling? When do you feel you can be truly you? Picture the place, the people, the circumstances. …and sit with them for a little while. I can think of two places where I always feel welcome …
