I met a Secret Millionaire

Only it wasn’t, you know, a secret. Last year I was visiting my brother’s church in Basingstoke and a lovely lady with curly hair got up to talk about herself & share a bit of her journey. Someone leaned over and said “She’s Blind” and then added “She’s an MBE”. I think I pulled one of [...]

Transcript of @Jezc’s hour on the Plinth.

Where / is indicated this means the next speaker speaks over the lines of the previous speaker.
Trafalgar Square, 10pm. Jez, wearing a grey flat cap, granite grey t shirt and blues jeans, is slowly lowered into view on a green cherry picker with him is a man in a red t shirt wearing a radio [...]

How do you keep in touch with your spiritual life?

I’ve mercilessly ripped off the question from here.
For me it’s an interesting question as I often get asked by people, why do you continue with your faith. Particularly when a senior member of the Church of England says that gays should “repent and be changed”. Cosmodaddy points out the point that Peter Tatchell made about [...]

Retreat!

I’m going away on retreat from this Friday, given the busyness and stuff going on over the last couple of weeks I can’t wait for a weekend away from the usual rush, bustle and clamour.
Bit of silence, bit of reflection, time spent away from the internet, my mobile phone, the tv, news and the echo [...]

Would Jesus Discriminate?

 “Would Jesus Discriminate?”.
It’s an interesting question.
It’s a question you have to ask yourself before even asking it to someone else. And you also have to be really careful who you ask to to as you’ll provoke all sorts of reactions from people.
We’re invited to think about Jesus “then” and consider Jesus “today”. How would Jesus [...]

Ten Commandments

Why ten?
Moses went up a mountain to get his.
I live on the 15th floor of a tower block.
The whole thing doesn’t really correlate really.
Why can’t I make up my own?
Shush. I’m having a go.
On this chilly Saturday evening, I’m atop my holy hill, my Mount Sinai if you will and I’ll channel the voices of [...]

Justice

Also from a very very old Greenbelt blog post and has been a little reworked.
The question of justice is a perplexing one. We’re born. We die. We object to major injustices- poverty, slavery etc but every day we allow little injustices. We allow inequality of genders; we allow homophobia to breed and walk by the [...]

The Arts

Something I wrote elsewhere which I’ve had another crack at…
I grew up in an independent evangelical church house plant (got that?) Christians who “dabbled” in the arts were sometimes seen in a similar light to those who “dabbled” in other dark recesses. It was only ok as long as you used your art for “Holy [...]