Thursday Theology: Suffering In The Real World
AS Easter rapidly approaches, a hint of warmth is joyfully now in the Spring sunshine. This time of year, as Lent continues, reminds us of the approaching sufferings of Jesus, […]
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Thursday Theology Matters (Week 4 Lent ’23)
The point of this blog emerging again was to keep the words flowing and perhaps reconnect with some of you again. As well as pointing to the fact that what […]
Thursday Theology Matters
It’s 2023. How in the world is it March 2023? Used to sound so futuristic, but now here we are. Tomorrow is 3/3/23. It sounds like a poem waiting to […]
Covid Tales (xiv): Seven Years On, No Songs Of Praise Shall Be Sung This Summer
(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20) Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]
Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?
Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]
Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness
HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]
Covid 2020 (ix): Two Years On
EXACTLY two years ago last night, I had the now infamous motorcycle accident in Redding, Northern California, where I was blessed to be living at the time. I shared very […]
Covid 2020 Tales (v) : Good Friday Bad Friday
SO my midweek post became a Good Friday post. Sorry about that. My heart feels heavy today and my body and mind are quite tired. But I’m not complaining. It’s a blessing […]
Covid 2020 Tales (iv)
TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]
Sunday Scribe: Sheep Identity
Just a few thoughts for tonight. I’ve been thinking since a few weeks ago about a talk I heard at a Church recently in Northern Ireland. The crux of it […]
Sixteen Weeks
Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]
Boots from a notable night
It’s true a picture is worth a thousand words. Many people may not have believed the post I shared on 2nd May, sharing a tiny 10% snippet of what happened […]
Pondering Prague: One year on
Hot off the heals of my last post about Eureka, USA, I am tonight remembering this time last year, when I was blessed to be in Prague, Czech Republic, in […]
Whitetails and Open Skies
AFTER a semi-conscious break from posting anything on social media in recent months, I felt to write a wee random blog article this week. I’ve just had a quietly […]
Good grief: Good Friday
THIS very afternoon just two weeks ago I went round to pray for a local father figure, someone I respect and cared for very much, a real rock solid background […]
Donegal January beauty
I took an intentional break from blogging and social media activity for the past 6 weeks, and may do so again during lent if not beyond, but this past week […]
C.S. Lewis…What a Man
THIS DAY in 1963 saw the dark departure from this earth of a writer of incredible latent talent and ability, C.S. Lewis, who also happens to have been from the […]
Is Jesus relevant to the 21st century ‘poor’ ?
————————————————————————————————————– I wrote this article summer 2013, and am reminded of it today, after a church service I attended in Northern Ireland which brought me close to tears with gratitude […]
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