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Guest Blog2021, Digital, Human, Image, Sunday@thePub Leave a Comment

Hi folks, I hope you are doing ok in the midst of all that is going on, it is very difficult to know what we should be doing, so we are giving you two options for Sunday night. The first is to meet on zoom at 7.30… The link will be set up and sent out on Sunday, so watch …

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Following the Wild Spirit of Christ :
 How a trip to the forest lead to me leaving Methodist ministry

Guest Blog2021, Creativity, Human, Spirit, Sunday@thePub Leave a Comment

I came into the church as a teenager with no background in Christianity or any kind of religious framework in my upbringing. However, I had always had a sense of something beyond that was drawing and beckoning me out of my limited self. The Christian faith gave me a framework to understand and nurture that sense of beckoning. In time …

Walter Brueggemann

David Wynd2020, bible, Human, Imagination, Influencers and Prophets, Old Testament, Politics, Sabbath, Sunday@thePub, Walter Brueggemann Leave a Comment

Born in Nebraska in 1933, Walter Brueggemann is an Old Testament theologian, St Louis Cardinals fan and for some, one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last 40 years or so. He uses a practice called rhetorical criticism (basically looking at the meaning behind words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films etc that people use to communicate) …

Commonalty… Unity…

Rob Wylie2019, Community, Human, Sunday@thePub Leave a Comment

H folks, I hope you are well, this week we are meeting at the Kittiwake at 8.00pm, it would be great to see you!  This week I stumbled upon this quote:  ‘The primary problem is that our identities are too small. We tend to rely most on our smaller, cultural identities and ignore our larger, common identity as members of …

What Makes us Human?

Rob Wylie2015, Human Leave a Comment

I came across this great audio from Nev Wilshire the guy from the Call Centre programs, I heard him do a little bit of it on the Chris Evans show, and then a mate passed me the full essay and the conversation on the Jeremy Vine show on ‘What makes us human’ … check it out here Hope you enjoy it! …