Recently a news story grabbed my attention as on June 5th NASA’s Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore launched from the earth about aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heading for the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was to last eight days but some technical issues, including problems with thrusters Read more…
I have been thinking recently about how the things we say and do can affect other people in more ways than we often realize or intend. In recent years the word ‘triggering’ has come into common usage to describe this in a usually negative way. The ongoing COVID 19 enquiry Read more…
One of the joys of National Trust membership is the opportunity to visit interesting and significant places and to find out about their connected people. And whilst I do enjoy palatial mansion houses, wild coastlands, countryside, and castles it can be the quirky and lesser-known places that can prove the Read more…
It feels a bit strange having this theme to this blog but here goes… One of the joys of living in London is the sheer number of interesting places to visit, some famous, others secret gems hidden away. I recently had a look round Sutton House in Hackney in East Read more…
It’s been a while since I last blogged sorry! It wasn’t intentional but maybe watching the awful invasion of Ukraine by Russia unfold, I think lost a bit of motivation for writing my somewhat trivial ramblings and reflections on life and faith. So here goes… A few months ago, following Read more…
I was prompted to think about this because of the name given to a recent gathering of Christian young people in our denomination called ‘Re-Assemble’. We are at the point in time when what it means to gather again is a real live issue in the UK right now and Read more…
It was really good last week to finally do some travelling around in North London and visit some church leaders in my role as Discipleship Enabler. I had checked the weather forecast which was good and I planned an itinerary to allow for travel. It was good to spend some Read more…
One of the in-words at the moment seems to ‘roadmap’ which seems, in the current context of the COVID pandemic, to denote a desire, especially by our leaders, to be seen to be somewhat in control of planning and yet not totally responsible for outcome. I guess to a greater Read more…