These are troubling times. They are times that call out for us to pause as we go through our daily lives, and consider what life is, or should be, all about. What follows are some ideas that I shared as part of a public baptism. I find as I read these words, that I hope you’ll enjoy, that they have more relevance now than when I wrote them, several years ago. Please do let me know what you think.
Author: James Blott
What should we be looking for in a new Prime Minister?
Some of you have given me positive feedback about my interview with Danny Doran. If you’ve explored Danny’s site further (‘The Infinite Jigsaw Podcast’), you’ll have come across the ten short interviews that Danny made with ‘Carbon Mike’, who is the founder of the Foundationist movement – see http://www.futurerad.io I came across Danny after these interviews had started, and I’ve only recently finished listening to them all. I was struck by how much ‘Foundationism’ has in common with Christianity, but also the contribution that the Foundationist Manifesto could make towards the selection of a new British Prime Minister.
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Regular readers of this blog will know that I hadn’t intended to post any further blogs until late September, as a result of a planned long sailing voyage. But as they say, the best laid plans……
They that go down to the sea in ships……
For those who are regular visitors to this website, firstly, thanks for sticking with me during the last three and a bit years! I have the opportunity of a lifetime to do a long sail with an old friend, around much of the coast of the UK, over this summer. Although I’ll be taking a notebook, to store theological reflections, sadly it won’t be possible for me to post anything further until probably sometime in late September.
Our broken world desperately needs Christian morals, values and ethics
Having started this blog three years ago, I’ve found it most interesting to hear what people have had to say to me privately. There’s no doubt that many folk are now looking for something beyond the confines of our deeply materialistic world, in which most have to spend their lives. They feel the emptiness, and know this can’t be what life is all about.
“Faith is about a relationship with God, not rituals and creeds”
So says Chris Sparkes, the translator of the newly published 'The Keys of the Kingdom' Holy Bible, who has spent 25 years giving us what he says is the first ever accurate translation of the Bible into English, from the original Hebrew and Greek. To say that this project is mind-boggling really doesn't do it justice.
Reflective Preacher 