In Sweden, which probably explains a lot...
Not long after I left Sweden, I heard that my church was running a kind of "inner peace" services aimed at people seeking for spirituality outside of church, which included communion as a spiritual experience, regardless of any faith in Jesus... 😶

True; I just haven't heard it spoken of in those terms. I also don't recall it ever being discussed when I was training for ministry, which in hindsight is a bit odd...

TBH I haven't heard, or used, any of those phrases!
I just say something along these lines:
Taking Communion means admitting I'm a sinner in need of a Saviour, and Jesus is the Saviour I need.
If that is true of you, you're welcome to join in; but if you're not sure about Jesus, you'd better not.

Israel As I Understand It The Eurovision Song Contest has always brought out strong feelings in many people (not least in my native Sweden where it enjoys a much higher status than here in the UK). This year, however, emoti…

Oh well, here goes...
*cowers under the desk*
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Some Things Are Up to Us British summer weather is quite a fascinating phenomenon. At the time of writing I have the heating on in my office while wearing a warm fleece – whereas last week it was 25°C (77°F) outside and I …

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Well, I'm doing my very best to keep it alive; it's the least I can do!

He Is Risen! This month we celebrate Easter, and for good reason: without Easter, there would be no church. For 2000 years the resurrection of Jesus has been the focal point of the Christian message – not to me…

Happy Easter!
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That's what my wife would prefer I did, too... 😄 Whereas I like to check every now and then: in many cases I prefer to fire off a quick reply, either answering the question or letting them know I'll deal with it when I'm back, rather than have things build up...

I also have two phones, one personal and one ministry - although I don't separate them as well as you seem to, and I usually take the ministry one with me on holiday - although it stays switched off most of the time.

Waiting for the New World Order It’s time to admit it: I’m part of a world-wide group of subversive activists, who refuse to give our allegiance to the leaders and rulers that supposedly reign over us. I’ve sworn loyalty to a new…

Are we subversive enough?
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A Pointless Post? ‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher.  ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’ (Eccl. 1:2) This is one of those Bible verses that everyone knows and recognises – even th…

Here's a pointless posting...
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And also praticality: unless tall books lean against the side of the bookcase they will fall over...

Right and Wrong and Suffering Back in 1947 C S Lewis wrote an essay about vivisection,1 where his main point wasn’t for or against but that we have to use reason to discuss it. His main complaint was that people on both sides o…

Some reflections inspired by current affairs and C S Lewis...
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YouTube video by Soel Music Prodigal (feat. Lara & Owen Burton) | Soel Music

Here's a song written and performed by my daghter - hope it will be a blessing to someone.
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Yes, organising by colour betrays a serious disregard for what books are...
Having said that, we have several bookcases and they are organised in different ways - the linguistics one is based primarily on height...

Much as I'm intrigued by and pleased about the surprising rebirth of faith in God that Justin Brierley and others are rightly excited about, I can't help fearing that C S Lewis' comments from 1958 might still be relevant...

Did C S Lewis predict Billy Graham?! (Again from "The Decline of Religion", 1946 - just before Graham started his evangelistic crusades...)

C S Lewis, back in 1946 (79 years ago!) wasn't particularly upset about the decline of religion he and others were observing...
(From the essay "The Decline of Religion")

So you can't do surveys in Bluesky? And here I was thinking it was an improvement on Twitter...

But... the glory of English is that you can verb anything!

Hang on - that's exacty how Aslan creates the animals in Narnia... and I always thought that was just Lewis' way of making Narnia _different_ to our world!

Well, my intention on Twitter was always to follow a variety of people and then never look at the "For you" timeline. If I stay on here, I'll presumably follow the same principle...

It's incredibly similar to Twitter...

Hello everyone - just thought I should try out this site for a change.