Note: I created this post just when I posted this 200th entry to my blog. I now update this regularly(ish) as new entries are added. The number of entries is now in excess of 400 and continually being added to. It is intended as an easy guide to the entries that make up this blog. Scroll down for the numbered list of the 416 postings that are now contained in my blog (oldest first, newest last), from when I started blogging, 22/02/14, to the present day (08/11/15). You can left mouse click on any title in order to go to the corresponding posting. I had set myself a target of 100 new postings in my first year as a blogger and have done double that amount, with a month to spare (wow or am I just sad – ed). I reflected on my blogging career when I made my 100th post and, having just gone back to check this out, I feel much the same now as I did then. I recall a story of a preacher, who stopped preaching after a few minutes, ending his sermon with the words “the matter has ceased to flow“. I can say, right now at least, this is far from the case as far as I am concerned. There are still all sorts of important things that get me impassioned on a wide range of subjects and new ones arise all the time. I still feel compelled to share and still have my faculties. The challenge is to be relevant, balanced and accurate, not neglecting the things I should be doing to embark on some ego-trip, fantasy or escapism. I hope what I write will prove to be needful, incisive and helpful and, for as a long as I think it is, and while I have the energy, inspiration and opportunity, I intend to continue adding to the blog. In order to provide those interested with an easy way to access the posts that make up this blog, I will update this post periodically, including links to new posts that have been added. And before folk chide me for doing this manually, the answer is I do so as I haven’t cracked the technology to automatically give me what I want! Enjoy 🙂
- Hello World!
- Transport – what is needed!?
- Myths about rough sleeping
- Cricket lovely cricket
- Churchill gardens – paradise!?
- St. Lukes Health Centre
- New eye for old
- Life of a king
- Signs of the times
- Tony Benn – a true democrat
- Gay marriage; equal marriage
- Church Winter Night Shelters
- Echo, gambling, 11-plus
- Depression and old age
- Street Pastors
- SIWG, Bismilla, Lent
- Holy week
- A visit to the mosque
- Food banks
- Anti gay nurse sacked
- UKIP posters
- The beautiful game
- Poetry please
- Election time again
- Making Britain great
- A tribute to Joe Goodman
- Indian elections
- Cluny Residents Association
- Evangelicals: a “gay question”?
- European elections
- Consigned to Room 101
- The Archers
- True, necessary and kind
- My desert island discs
- Election extra
- Election results – part 1
- Election results – part 2
- Election results – part 3
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Are Britons racist?
- The legacy of Stephen Sutton
- Bonhoeffer
- The dust has settled, or has it?
- Helping the homeless
- REVIVE
- Football World Cup 2014 (1)
- On the matter of abortion
- Rent deposit schemes
- From SATs and 11-plus to GCSE
- Immigration and Malayalees
- Cluny Square and the monks
- Taboo subjects
- Iraq’s Eternal War
- The point of education
- Football World Cup 2014 (2)
- Housing Justice
- Football World Cup 2014 (3)
- The scientific method
- Creation versus evolution
- Football World Cup 2014 (4)
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Football World Cup 2014 (5)
- The Palestinian question (1)
- Sledgehammers to crack nuts
- Football World Cup 2014 (6)
- Assisted Dying Bill
- The Palestinian question (2)
- Community in Harmony
- Council webcasts (1)
- To my Facebook friends
- Christian Fundamentalism
- Street Spirit
- Lord Denis Healey
- The British Commonwealth
- Trust
- The Palestinian question (3)
- Truth
- An Unprofitable Servant
- Knowledge is Power
- Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells
- FIFA corruption
- Blessed are the peacemakers
- Homeless solutions (1)
- Christian persecution
- Letter to a Zionist friend
- Robin Williams RIP
- Balance
- God’s Not Dead
- Time to Change
- Why teach Latin?
- Vicky Beeching coming out
- Understanding Islam
- GCSEs – waiting is almost over
- Scottish Independence
- Perspective
- Southend Pier
- Homeless solutions (2)
- General Election 2015
- Families struggle – debt crisis
- 100 not out
- Benefits sanctions
- Political correctness
- Rotherham child abuse scandal
- Carswell’s UKIP defection
- Homelessness practicalities
- Social Justice
- The Ice Bucket Challenge
- Thought for the day
- Strictly is back
- My ten best books
- Suspended coffees
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Prittlewell Prince
- Remembering Ian Paisley
- The Grammar Game
- European Union (1)
- An interesting few days
- The big need for Southend
- Flash floods in Southend
- Iraq’s Eternal War (continued)
- Night Shelter time again
- The Unprofitable Servant (2)
- Multiculturalism
- Ordinary things
- Science Fiction
- The Kevin Pietersen Affair
- The UKIP factor
- Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
- The rich-poor divide
- Understanding Islam (2)
- Chips and bees
- The Green effect
- Carpe Diem
- Gay Issues
- The Apprentice is back
- Homelessness & mental health
- Europe’s anti-gay crisis
- Retirement
- Leaving Afghanistan
- British doctor’s Ebola diary
- Wearing poppies
- Crisis in the NHS (1)
- Pope Francis and Halloween
- Faith schools
- The Wallasea Island project
- Street Pastors – love in action
- Christian Palestinianism
- The Immigration Debate (1)
- Night Shelter practicalities (1)
- When I was young (1)
- Kipperwatch Southend
- Nice Christians
- Night Shelter Practicalities (2)
- Women Bishops
- Counting Rough Sleepers
- Suspended coffees (2)
- Fracking
- The Immigration Debate (2)
- British values
- Jack Monroe – crossing the line
- Dominic Bann – hockey player
- Loneliness
- When words are not enough
- Night Shelter Practicalities (3)
- General William Dobbie
- Political ramblings
- Night Shelter Practicalities (4)
- What would Jesus do?
- Politics and Religion
- Unsung heroes
- Christian Fundamentalism (2)
- Evangelicals, Catholics and Liberals
- Southend’s inadequate schools
- Christmas movies
- Policing homelessness
- Advent
- Fine absent councillors!?
- Christmas messages
- Homelessness and ping-pong
- Russia
- Resolutions
- Night Shelter Practicalities (5)
- Sir David Amess MP
- Hearts and heads
- Southend’s outstanding schools
- The politics of homelessness
- Self harming
- Road bumps
- Christian Concern
- Andrae Crouch – music legend
- Election debates
- Trident
- Dementia friends
- Je suis Charlie
- Politics, Religion and Poverty
- The Gay Conundrum
- Volunteering
- School Funding Crisis
- Martin Luther King
- 200 not out
- Greek elections and austerity
- Kipperwatch Southend (2)
- Rough sleeper practicalities
- Illegal immigration
- Thatcherism revisited
- Meetings for local residents
- Helping rough sleepers!?
- Faith and Beliefs event
- Parking fines, speeding tickets
- Housing the homeless
- Grumpy’s diner
- Rugby World Cup 2015
- Cricket World Cup 2015
- With God on our side
- Use of church buildings
- Legal Highs
- When Christians join the Tories
- Street Spirit – sleep out
- The church and sexuality
- Holy biased politics
- Outside the Camp
- Kipperwatch Southend (3)
- Progressive Christianity
- Christian Conscience
- Israeli Elections
- British Muslims
- Council webcasts (2)
- St. Lukes Health Centre (2)
- Cricket World Cup 2015 (2)
- Winter Night Shelters ending
- Palm Sunday
- Some mental health thoughts
- Onward and Upward
- British Elections 2015 (1)
- British values (2)
- Easter
- Foreign forays
- General Election Hustings (1)
- Values based school curriculum
- Richie Benaud – cricket legend
- British Elections 2015 (2)
- Petitioning politicians
- Health event in the town
- Navigating the new Middle East
- Deciding who to vote for
- The Inclusive Church (1)
- The Inclusive Church (2)
- Britain’s housing crisis
- Homeless information
- General Election Hustings (2)
- Dear Mr. Duddridge
- Protecting religious liberty
- General Election Hustings (3)
- Council Webcasts (3)
- A Christian approach to voting
- British Elections 2015 (3)
- Vote UKIP!?
- British Elections 2015 (4)
- British Elections 2015 (5)
- No leaflets please
- British Elections 2015 (6)
- Albert Belden (1883 – 1964)
- British Elections 2015 (7)
- Britain’s free press
- Election results 2015 (1)
- Election results 2015 (2)
- Election results 2015 (3)
- Homelessness – back to reality
- Where next for Labour?
- Equality and gay marriage
- Electoral Reform
- A time to speak
- CRA – an end of an era!?
- Southend United Football Club
- Kippers and Greens
- We all matter
- CRA update
- Southend’s Rainbow coalition
- Concerning Ashers’ bakers …
- European Referendum (1)
- Reflections on marriage
- Anti-semitism, Islamophobia and culture wars
- FIFA corruption (2)
- Kippers and Greens (2)
- Harold Wilson’s legacy
- Fining homeless people
- The Sun comes up trumps
- Homeless kicked out of shelter
- Four and a half point Calvinism
- Warrior Square soup kitchen
- Time to fight the Jew haters
- Filling potholes to save lives
- Social justice and church mission
- Much is taken, much abides
- Calling the Prodigals
- A walk around Blenheim Park
- Middle East moral dilemmas
- Moral crisis
- Zulu
- Magna Carta and Waterloo
- Misunderstandings
- Charleston gun shootings
- Anti-austerity protests
- Gleanings in Ruth
- Southend Rough Sleepers Leaflet
- Now that I’m old
- Ashes cricket 2015 (1)
- Invite to a mosque open day
- US Supreme Court gay decision
- Magic, chemistry and books
- Suspended coffees (3)
- When God doesn’t make sense
- 57 West (East) and the homeless
- Women’s Football World Cup
- Generous Justice; Greek Debt
- Extremism
- Adventure Island
- HARP
- A visit to the Rotary club
- London bombings – 10 years on
- Homeless on Southend cliffs
- Budget reflections
- Ashes cricket 2015 (2)
- When love is not enough
- Homeless-on-Sea
- We’re doing all we can
- Wisdom, knowledge and wicked situations
- Save the BBC
- Ashes cricket 2015 (3)
- Eid mubarak and gay sex
- Hospital discharges and readmissions
- To my Facebook friends (2)
- The Labour Leadership
- Funding Grammar Schools
- Homelessness is always with us
- Sleeping bags for rough sleepers
- The Tour de France
- Political Reflections
- Politicians and Christian voters
- Councillor remuneration
- Ashes cricket 2015 (4)
- Peter O’Sullevan – horse racing legend
- Crisis in Calais
- Remembering Cilla
- We’re doing all we can (2)
- 11-plus update
- Asylum seeking update (1)
- Willie Thorne’s gambling addiction
- Safeguarding vulnerable people
- Hymnigrants – Calais Shocker
- Night Shelter Time Again (2)
- Ashes cricket 2015 (5)
- Elmer Gantry
- Southend’s homeless population
- Solomon’s Song of Songs (1)
- Multicultural Whitechapel
- Albert
- Solomon’s Song of Songs (2)
- C.S.Lewis – a life
- Rough sleepers dying
- CWNS Volunteer Application
- Homeless man left to die
- Recommending books to read
- Ashes cricket 2015 (6)
- World Athletics Championship
- What’s in the news today?
- Charity begins at home
- Small acorns; mighty oaks
- Visiting God’s own country
- About Street Spirit
- The Jeremy Corbyn factor
- Rugby World Cup 2015 (1)
- Compassion and agendas
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Puritans, conscience and homosexuality
- British or English!?
- Rev. Ken Leech
- Pope Francis and climate change
- Controlling faith leaders
- Israel
- Chrislam – a one world religion
- Dawkins, Scholl, Syria, Archers
- Oregon college shooting
- Christian freedom cases
- What I have learned about homelessness
- Tomassi’s
- Thoughts about SHAN
- Night Shelter time again (3)
- David Wilkerson – prophet
- Southend Welcoming Refugees
- Party conference speeches
- The King James Bible
- A time to die
- Rugby World Cup 2015 (2)
- Hope Not Hate
- If you see people begging
- Terry Whitman
- Caring Conservatives
- Southend’s grammar school places
- The Diary of a Nobody
- Southend Welcoming Refugees (2)
- Barack Obama, Christian values and culture wars
- Rugby World Cup 2015 (3)
- China President visits the UK
- Small shops
- Israel (2)
- 666 and China
- Judge not lest ye be judged
- Benedictine hospitality and tough love
- Council webcasts (3)
- Gender and sexuality
- Southend Welcoming Refugees (3)
- Rugby World Cup 2015 (4)
- Halloween
- Funerals, families and legacies
- Conservatism and Socialism