Moment #1Last year our son, Cai, and his mates inspired us. While eating tea he told us that rather than have a New Year’s resolution, they were going to have a New Year’s theme such as: eat better, be tidier. What impressed me was that one friend (the one that wanted to be tidier) had expanded that he wanted “his …
I wonder if you have been baptized, or Christened? I am a British Baptist. So as you can imagine I have a particular view of Baptism. It’s a view that’s held by a lot of other Christians too these days but, back in the day, these views would have gotten you killed. Usually by drowning – because people back then …
In the last week or so we’ve begun to harvest the first-fruit from our garden and allotment. A heap of garlic, some sorry onions (that didn’t get enough water around Easter), 1 tiny courgette, some chillies, and some ripening tomatoes. The world is again – fecund. A few years ago I read a lot about the concept of slow church. …
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 …