Category: writing

Still processing the Idolatry of God retreat Anne and I went on in Belfast some weeks ago now. One of the things that always ‘troubles’ me after attending events such as this is feeling of what to do with it all. As Dylan sang in Ballad of a Thin Man: You try so hard but… Continue reading Just what you will say when you get home

Duran Duran… I know I must be tired or something, but it does reflect something of how I am feeling. I have just returned from a week long conference in Belfast. The title of the event was The Idolatry ofGod , I shall be writing up more of that at other times suffice it to… Continue reading Hungry like the wolf

I made a news years resolution at new year. I don’t make them every year, the last one I really stuck at was to give up smoking and that was 13 years ago. I think for a new years resolution to work it has to be something that can be measured and as it based… Continue reading I just want room to live

We had a discussion about church the other night. Nothing too unusual, we have them quite frequently, however, this time it became quite heated and people got upset. The gist of the debate was my proposition that the church tends to make people more unhappy than happy. I contested that it is not possible for… Continue reading Rip it up and start again

First post for a year. Oh and I’ve changed the name. In fact quite a lot has changed since I last posted but more of that later. One thing that remains is the title-from-a-song thing that you all love so much. Back to Bob Dylan as well, My back Pages in which he sings: Good… Continue reading I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now

Hi, I’m Steve and  I watch Coronation Street. I have tried to give it up many times but I just keep going back to it. It is probably very apt that I keep going off the Street and then coming back as the show itself is not averse to revisiting fertile storyline ground. At the… Continue reading Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

My father passed away last week, this is the eulogy I am thinking of delivering at his funeral next week. It was a long time before we realised that dad was ill. Not the illness that took him from us 12 days ago, I knew almost from the first time we saw him lying in… Continue reading Say Hello to the Angels

Did any of you see the wonderful ‘Choir’ series on the telly recently? I did and what an uplifting tale of one person’s vision for a community being realised so effectively. For those of you unfamilliar with the concept, Gareth Malone, a choirmaster goes into a community, be that a school or, in the case of… Continue reading I’d like to teach the world to sing

There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life So spaketh the atheist-in-chief, Richard Dawkins and thus it came to pass…. people waiting at the bus stop, plastered to the side of  the bus. I like this story.  I understand that the ‘probably’ is there to avoid the advertising standards council blocking the… Continue reading I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

– He just wants to live his life this way hehey. Following on a little from my last entry but a little bit more churchy (sorry), I read an article that interested me the other day concerning the calling of ministers. I think I may have touched on this before. I have increasingly felt that… Continue reading Vicar in a Tutu