Never underestimate the power and joy of new life.
It was recently our very great honour and pleasure to entertain, for a couple of hours, our very good friends and their lovely daughter and shiny, tiny and brand-new granddaughter, Ava.
Continue reading “New Life”When death nears, everything is filled with wonder, as if viewed from the eyes of a young child.
Continue reading “A Green and Pleasant Land”
In writing his article, ‘We cant afford a taboo on assisted dying’, Matthew Parris may well have unwittingly argued the case against euthanasia, or ‘assisted dying’ as those seeking to soothe their own conscience, prefer to call it.
‘Assisted dying’ is more palatable to our western (Christian) sensibilities: a bit like substituting the words ‘planned parenthood’ for abortion clinics or ‘gender affirming care’ for the irreversible mutilation of children incapable of consent.
Continue reading “Assisted living- a response to Matthew Parris’ article (The Times)”Dear Jum,
Your hair is whiter than I remember: whiter than Gandalf’s beard.
Continue reading “A Letter to my brother”‘As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.’
So says the psalm of King David.
Continue reading “An Article for the Chestnut Appeal- living with cancer.”Thinking of the current events troubling us at home and abroad, I rather like the following quote from Mark Twain:
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
I have found an antidote to the cynicism of worldly affairs in the shapely form of man’s best friend; more specifically, my border terriers.
Our old stud dog, Taz, has enjoyed a long and happy retirement from his toil. Now fifteen, he sometimes struggles to get out of his bed and his arthritic limbs scramble across wooden floors in the manner of a novice ice skater.
Continue reading “For the Love of Dogs”Since the time that the serpent said to Eve “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” we have been the willing participants in a great deception:
We thought that we could be like God.
Continue reading “Monsters of our own making?”I agree with Winston Churchill, whose article entitled, ‘shall we all commit suicide’ was published shortly after Ernest Rutherford had split the atom in 1917, demonstrating his awareness of the destructive possibilities of this scientific development.
Continue reading “The Problem of Evil”“The first casualty of war is truth”.
This very relevant axiom is being much quoted and misquoted in all forms of media; especially in light of the terror attack on Israeli civilians on 7th October and the desire to make subsequent events conform to our own particular worldview.
Continue reading “Info Wars”Where is God?
This might well be the cry of God’s chosen people -the Jews- in Israel and around the world today.
Continue reading “A Cry for Justice”
