If there’s one thing that’s worse than the wrong kind of emotion it’s no emotion at all. How often do we watch the news or read the paper and feel nothing? We intellectually acknowledge the tragedy but we refuse to enter into the struggle.
I have spent my growing up years believing that to be christian [...]
Archive for January, 2008
christians aren’t angry enough
January 20, 2008‘a wild & marvellous joke’
January 11, 2008“Is it possible, I wonder, to say that it is only when you hear the gospel as a wild and marvellous joke that you really hear it at all?” (Fredrick Buechner)
The other day I was standing looking out at the sea in the freezing cold, the noise of it was so loud that I felt [...]
waiting for a plane
January 8, 2008woman at the airport desk: “do you have anything sharp or liquid in your lugage?”
me & rach: NO
me (in a whisper): Rach i’ve got shampoo am i allowed?
Rach (in a booming voice): ack i’ve got LOADS of liquids in my bag dont worry!
woman at desk: silence (pretending she didn’t hear so that she can go [...]
