Covid 2020 Tales (vi): Fresh Creativity
THERE’S so much I could write about the last 10 days, in this covid-19 pandemic lockdown, but I’m going to refrain myself in this post. I will say here that I’m […]
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 […]
Covid 2020: Part 3
A VERY interesting unexpected thing is happening since I’ve started posting these pathetic wee covid-19 period blog posts. This blog site has been receiving new and unexpected traffic from China almost […]
Covid 2020 Tales: (ii)
SPRING HAS sprung here in Northern Ireland, and yet it’s hard to fully appreciate it since the whole country and entire British Isles are on complete lockdown now due to […]
Covid 2020 Tales
FROM THE beauty of rural Northern Ireland, I write to you from the ugliness of covid-19 quarantine, in what already feels a bit like a strange prison type scenario after […]
Suffering Amidst The Miraculous
Following on from my sporadic social media post last Sunday night, I was not planning to write a blog post, but I felt it warranted it after its response. So […]
NI citizens are stirring against new extreme abortion law
Having had a break from social media completely for a wee while over the Summer, and an intentional pull-back from everything to focus on one or two specific things in […]
Shocking Facts About Northern Ireland’s New Extreme Abortion Regime
In mid June, when I was sick with a lower respiratory infection, something hideous and horrendous, as far as I’m concerned, was introduced in a completely sudden, shocking seemingly pretty […]
CHRISTIANS STILL HOMELESS TWO YEARS ON FROM THE MARAWI SIEGE IN THE PHILIPPINES
Two years after Islamic militants laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi, Christians are still living in temporary shelters despite being desperate to return to their communities. On May […]
Nine Months On From Vietnam
On the eve of American Memorial day, and nine months on from a far-from-dull work-related trip to Northern Vietnam, I felt led tonight to share a few photos from the […]
Indian Elections: If BJP wins, Laws Preventing Conversion Away From Hinduism May Increase
This Thursday will see the results announced of India’s largest ever expression of democracy. However, what might it mean for some of the minority religious groups in the country? India’s […]
Family or Death: The Extreme Choice facing Many Christian Women
During Ramadan, the pressure on secret Christians in Islamic societies is more intense than usual. As the Muslim world celebrates Ramadan, (from the evening of 5th May until 4th June […]
Sunday Scribe: Sharing in Sufferings
Not a catchy title tonight. But suffering is real on planet earth. If you’ve lived here any length of time, chances are that you will have tasted some suffering at […]
If God is So Good & Jesus Really Rose, Why Are Most NI Christians So Powerless & Prayerless?
It’s Easter, yet I’m playing ‘Devil’s advocate’ a little here. I’m poking a little at Easter from within. Today on Easter Sunday, I thought I’d scribble a quick bit on […]
Palm Sunday
So just before Palm Sunday comes and goes, a quick word about Jesus on that day. The original Palm Sunday The week before being sent to his death on a […]
Sunday Scribbles on Mary & Martha
Most of you reading this know the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible. I won’t take time to write all about the details of it – you’re more […]
The Best And Worst of Times
WITH THE best of intentions, I planned to write a further blog post last weekend, but amidst a blessed and busy, redemptive God-gifted trip back to my unplanned, second home […]
Sunday Scribe: Redemption
Redemption is a big word. I’m experiencing a, “wee bit” of it in these days. From a not-so-easy 2018 in Redding, and certainly not an easy ending, Father God has […]
Authenticity in an Era of Fakeness
We hear a lot these days about “fake news”, which has surfaced only in the Trump era. I’m not a big fan of that falsely created term, but that’s not […]
Sunday Scribe…
Sunday Scribing skipped the past week or two. Will endeavour to resume again next week. Check back then. Meanwhile here’s a random soul-soothing photograph of Fairhead, Ballycastle, County Antrim, in […]
Sunday Scribe
The article I’ve linked to below is one I scribbled in passionate frustration two weeks shy of two years ago. It’s caught my attention this weekend for how much of […]
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 […]
Sunday Scribe: Rediscovering Bone Broth
Let’s talk about bone broth. (Not the kind of article you were perhaps expecting, but variety is the spice of life and all that). As I continue to recover from […]
Sunday Scribe: 27th January 2019
Believe it or not this wee blog effort experiment is 6 years old later this year. Six years have passed in the blink of an eye, like a bullet plucked […]
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