The Party

The day of the party had arrived. It wasn’t a big affair, just a few friends and the odd neighbour coming for some Christmas drinks and hopefully some craic. The morning was spent finishing off the Christmas shopping, amidst the bustling hordes. Lunch was quickly downed with the knowledge that preparations for the evening needed [...]

Romantic Comedies proved destructive

Well unhelpful at least. What many blokes have been saying for years, and I remember Zoomtard, Jayber and I ranting about in a discussion on movies a few years ago seems to being ‘proved’ by university studies…
Check it out on the BBC website

pub theology – right or wrong

I have long advocated that the most significant conversations i’ve had about theology tend to take places in the pub. Transfarmer, smallcorner and a few others help keep this theory alive in a long conversation about lots of things, partly how we read the Bible and think about it. On that topic I’ve just started [...]

advent

the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the nativity, the incarnation of Jesus..
It’s not something that the church tradition I grew up really made much of but something I’ve been discovering much more of in the last few years.
The onset of advent means the return of the marvellous mockingbird’s leap – a blog with [...]