The Strangest Things...

Well as the end of the academic year approaches and people start to drift away from university I find my time is spent less and less in contact with people. No more three CU meetings a week. No more meetings with students. But lots more time for reading. I find I start trying to read a book but nearly always I fid that I have as least half a dozen on the go. Disregarding the Bible; Systematic Theology (W Grudem); and the BAFA Rulebook, I am currently somewhere through: The Parables of Jesus (T Johnson); Faust, Part 1 (J W v Goethe); Just Sex (G Brandon); The Marlinspike Sailor (H G Smith); Aesop's Fables; The Complete Fairy Tales (Grimm); When People are Big and God is Small (E T Welch); God's Big Picture (V Roberts); Teach Yourself French Grammar; and The Life and Death of King John (Shakespeare). I have decided that this is a bit of a problem. I used to be able to get through books very quickly and I think what has changed is a fragmentation of my attention. When I was ...

Well I am still new to the idea of blogging and writing something greater than 140 characters at one time. Twitter is rather fun and in some ways useful, but it is quite a different beast to approach. I will, over the next couple of days, post a couple of prayer letters I have have written over the year. I am aware that not everyone got them and it will be interesting for me to look back a it. These will be followed by a new prayer letter, which I will try to send to people who may not have got the previous. Anyway, enough of the future (it will come soon enough). This has been a fun weekend in some ways. There was a lot of sport, the highlights for me are unsurprising. Yorkshire beat Holland at Headingley in the 40 over competition on Saturday, followed by England winning the World Twenty20 against Australia in Barbados. We also had one of the most eventful F1 races I remember, with only 12 of the 24 starters actually crossing the finish line. The safety car was out a...