Yesterday, I was enlightened, amused and bemused when I read an article with the intriguing title: “33 things the kids of today will never understand“. Continue reading
Night Shelter practicalities (1)
In less than a month the Southend Church Winter Night Shelter (CWNS) provision is due to start up, and will run every night from December until March. Continue reading
The Immigration Debate (1)
Those who have read my writings and blog may have gathered that immigration is a subject I follow with a keen and particular interest. Continue reading
Christian Palestinianism
Some will know something about my story of how I became a community activist, which I have shared in my book “Outside the Camp” and its sequel “Onward and Upward“, Continue reading
Street Pastors – love in action
While I haven’t been out with Southend Street Pastors for a while now, this has been something I have been pleased to have been involved with, going back to the early days Continue reading
The Wallasea Island project
Checking out the RSPB website, following my visit last week to Wallasea Island (less than 30 minute drive from my house), I discovered Continue reading
Faith schools
“Education, education, education” was how Tony Blair set out his priorities for office – as Labour campaigned to put classrooms at the top of the political agenda. Continue reading
Pope Francis and Halloween
Update: I first posted this two years ago and in checking out on who reads my blogs I find for some strange reason this is one that has proved particularly popular. Today is Halloween and even after going out earlier today it seems clear that “celebrating” the occasion is as popular as ever. While I do not wish to be a party pooper, I do have reservations and would like to offer some positive alternatives. What I wrote back then is still pertinent I feel. I hope folk will find these thoughts helpful – ed 31/10/16 Continue reading
Crisis in the NHS (1)
When I mentioned to someone close to me that I was going to blog about the NHS, I was advised DON’T as I did not know enough to speak authoritatively on the subject Continue reading
Wearing poppies
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918, hostilities ceased in World War 1. Continue reading
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