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  • Sermon – 28 March 2004

    This week is the start of a mini-season in the church ? we are travelling through Lent towards Holy Week ? the Great Drama. This final part of the journey, we call Passiontide. The time of the Passion. This year of all years ? the Passion of Christ is at the forefront of people?s minds.…

  • Web Outage

    An infuriating three days of web outage. For some reason, my webspace provider suffered a denial of service attack and did not deal with it terribly well. I', glad my livelihood does not depend o­n them.I am unsure whether anything sent to me at anything@thurible.net has got through successfully – anyone who thinks they have…

  • Web-pastorate

    I've now lost count of the number of people who have suggested that I am the person for the Web Pastor job which the Diocese of Oxford are setting up.I suspect that there is an interesting job to be done in the Diocese of Oxford. Whether it is possible to set up a church which…

  • New Bin Days

    Here is a piece of wisdom from Stirling Council, who are changing refuse collection days:For some households their new bin day may be the same as their old o­ne.

  • The Dreamers

    Went to the Macrobert cinema last night to see The Dreamers – set in Paris in 1968. I was reminded that o­ne of the people I trained for the priesthood, who now also works in this diocese, who often said that my true millieu was the Left Bank in '68. I suspect that he thought that I…

  • Big Ben

    I wonder why no-one has offered to resign over the protesters climbing Big Ben yesterday in the middle of the greatest security alert that Britain has ever been in the middle of. I would have thought that someone was responsible – some police-person if not David Blunkett himself. Strange.

  • Guest Sermon Slot

    I'm not preaching today – someone else has kindly offered to do so.So here is a guest preacher, who begins his sermon o­n the Prodigal thus: The story of the Prodigal Son is most often seen in personal, psychological ways, as a story of family pathos. A self-centered child runs away from home, sows his…

  • I've just discovered rss

    I've installed an aggregator. What wonderful time saving software – I wonder why i never used o­ne before. Well actually, I think I did try o­ne last year, but it did not work. An aggregator is used to monitor all the blogs and websites which o­ne might have an interest it, polling them every hour…

  • Medical Report

    Many thanks to all who have sent good wishes and offers to help whilst I have been laid low this week. I'm now starting to get back to normal.For those who are interested, I've had plantar fasciitis and very painful and debilitating it has been for three days. The treatment, recommended by my doctor, was…

  • School of Prayer – 17 March 2004 Cancelled

    The meeting of the School of Prayer tonight is postponed.  I'm not well and likely to be off work for a couple of days.