#SYNOD

With the inner sanctums of the Church of England meeting this week, for God-only-knows-what, invitations are now welcome for appropriate ICHABOD-related acronyms of SYNOD. I’ve decided to keep it squeaky-clean and go with: Stop Your Nonsense Of Doctrine I’m pleased to announce that in a few months time I will be able to publish aContinue reading “#SYNOD”

Earthly Use

They talk about being “so heavenly minded to be of no earthly use”. I’d like to smash this myth… …the inference of this statement is that thinking outside the supernatural order and realm of things has a limited shelf life (a little is OK but a lot isn’t) but this isn’t quite the point: EvenContinue reading “Earthly Use”

Yearn

Give me a man in love; he knows what I mean.  Give me one who yearns; give me one who is hungry; give me one far away in this desert, who is thirsty and sighs for the spring of the Eternal country.  Give me that sort of man; he knows what I mean.  But ifContinue reading “Yearn”

Joy Misunderstood

The Bothy Sessions are, in part, an autobiographical commentary regarding part of my pursuit of Jesus for the last thirty years. It has been (and is) a pursuit that is both deleriously joyful and deeply depressing.

Maugrim & The Secret Scottish Police

I had just got out of a taxi outside Newcastle train station and I was burning with the Holy Spirit of God.