I am now at the half way point managing the church winter night shelter at Ferndale Baptist Church and so far so good. It has been a worthwhile project, notwithstanding all sorts of minor to middling incidents, which I always knew would be part and parcel of such an enterprise, which I do along with my other homeless involvements. Continue reading →

Last night, I had a brief exchange with an old friend who happens to share many of my views but on this occasion we ended up agreeing to disagree. It was around the latest episode in the UKIP civil war saga Continue reading →

While mulling over possible content for my latest blog, I had an unpleasant experience that in a strange way was not altogether unrelated. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

In recent days, I have come across a number of Facebook posts regarding Martin Luther King. I also discovered a “must see” film about some important aspects of his work has just been released. Continue reading →

Among the emails received yesterday was one from my son’s school (and the one I once attended too) regarding an anticipated shortfall in funding for the coming year. Continue reading →

I have been thinking a lot about volunteers and volunteering recently and I thought I would share some of my thoughts here. Continue reading →

Prologue

The seeds for my book, “The Gay Conundrum“, were sowed nearly five years ago Continue reading →

I was struck by recent reports concerning the two senior Anglican archbishops and their comments concerning poverty and the state of the nation, and what this has to do with religion and politics, and the discussions that followed. Continue reading →

The reverberations from the atrocity in Paris that took the lives of staff working at the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”, Continue reading →