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 (2): Where Is Your Faith?
It’s the 9th March, 2023, and we are nearly three years since Boris Johnson called a ‘lockdown’ in what became the most historic, unprecedented (yes, sorry, that word again!) time […]
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 (x): More Scrutiny Needed Of Ongoing Draconian Measures
SO BORIS is back to work. Prayers have been answered, one might say. (And as I’ve written quite openly before, I’m not politically a huge fan of Boris Johnson, but I […]
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 (viii): How the pallet progressed…
ALMOST forgot to post before the week is out. In the interests of integrity because I said I would, here’s a wee visual of how the pallet effort progressed yesterday. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over 3,400 Fire Fighters Continue to Battle Redding Blaze
My heart is very, very heavy ongoingly today, ever since I discovered almost by chance late on Thursday evening UK time, that my second home of Redding was about to […]
40 days in the Wilderness
Not sure if it’s obvious where I’m writing this from. Some of the more astute of you may recognise and realize this to be Krakow. Today is my 40th day […]
Further Reflections on an Eventful Year:
HAVING SHOCKED you with my photos last time, I hope you’ve realized by now my intentional opposite spirit to the majority of social media, (which is often aimed at presenting […]
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 […]
Home Advent 4:
Reflections on my summer pictures continued…number 4… Enjoy! (Dunluce Castle sunset, North Coast of Northern Ireland, in July 2017). copyright L. Dunlop
Advent Home: 1
Over the rest of December, as I prepare for going back home, I will be posting at least a few random posts about Northern Ireland, photographs or otherwise. This will […]
December Beckons…
A YEAR AGO, I was in Warsaw, Poland, for what I had no idea was about to become a very, very significant trip, indirectly, into new scary but faith-filled steps […]
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 […]
Final Dark Beauty at Christmas…
This will be my final post of this year, and potentially thereafter. I haven’t firmly decided yet. As I always say, ‘I have a love-hate relationship with social media.’ I […]
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