My first finished book in 2024
Ian B. Around the World in 80 Games: A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy My rating: 4 of 5 stars An enjoyable and easy to…
A Psalm to follow a re-shuffle
One of today’s Psalms in the pattern from the old BCP is Psalm 72. Reading it in the context of the news of this week’s surprise re-shuffle of the UK…
Lament, Trauma, and Hope – it’s complicated.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve looked at the biblical book of Lamentations, and seen that the poet finds reason for hope in the midst of the trauma of…
Lament, Trauma, and Hope – the source of our Hope
Last week we started to read Lamentations as a biblical example of a response to traumatic situations. We saw how, in the midst of crisis and loss, the poet could…
Lament, Trauma, and Hope – who do we turn to?
What do we do when confronted by tragedy and disaster? Just in the last short while we’ve seen reports of extraordinary flooding in Libya and devastating earthquake in Morocco as…
Death and Resurrection
We’re coming to the end of our summer of miracles at church (although we always hope for more!) and we’ve come to the end of our walk with Elisha in…
Elisha and the floating axe head
Several times I’ve heard people give the challenge to read Bible passages in unusual locations – up a mountain, in a hospital A&E waiting room, or on a bus. The…
Healing of Naaman
One of the best known of Elisha’s miracles (recounted in 2 Kings 5.1-27) is probably the healing of Naaman, a commander in the Aramean (approximately modern-day Syria) army which was…
What happens between the oil and the bread?
2 Kings 4:1-7 describes a miracle in which God provided an amazing amount of oil for a widow who asked Elisha for help. Enough oil was poured into the jugs…
Fresh water, bald heads, and she-bears.
2 Kings 2.19-25 Last time we looked at the start of Elisha’s ministry in 2 Kings 2. That chapter ends with the description of two miracles which Elisha performed, and…