Sheila Bridge Blog
What would you need if you wanted to read the entire Bible through from start to finish without stopping? A lot of coffee? Around 80 spare hours? Very good reading glasses? An insane desire to do something that feels impossible? Answer: none of the above. (Well, okay, maybe some of the above) Answer: you need... Continue Reading →
Theologians and some significant others explain why the chicken crossed the road: Greg Boyd: It's a possibility that the chicken crossed the road. Rick Warren: The chicken was purpose driven. Mark Driscoll: The chicken crossed because of the rooster's leadership. Rachel Held Evans: We're talking about chickens here, not pigs. Pelagius: Because the chicken was... Continue Reading →
Setting the alarm last night for 5.45am, the opening line for this blog post came to me, 'I have joined the lunatic fringe'! And yes, the notion of flinging myself into a freezing lake before 8am on a saturday morning did feel slightly insane. But it wasn't, it SO wasn't. First of all when we... Continue Reading →
Thank you BBC for brightening up an otherwise dull day in the library. The story about the flatulent dinosaurs was a winner. Shame it wasn't April 1st. If you missed it, it's apparently been shown that dinosaurs breaking wind may have been responsible for raising the temperature on planet earth by 10 degrees and thereby... Continue Reading →
Being 'in' a tornado is a pretty rare weather event: worth a quick blog I think! We had a 10 second tornado here in Rugby, in the area of our church, at 6pm yesterday. I was just leaving the church centre and was struggling to lock a gate with a key so was conveniently tucked... Continue Reading →
'Karibu' is Swahili for 'welcome' and I was certainly made to feel incredibly welcomed in Tanzania. I was out there as part of a team delivering training to local church leaders on a course called Rooted in Jesus. (http://www.rootedinjesus.net/) It was a challenging experience. The scenery was green, the roads were bumpy, the plumbing was... Continue Reading →
Why does God sometimes seem so casually ambivalent about the life and death issues that matter so much to us? And how come death sometimes comes in such an arbitrary way? As we worshipped in church this morning (Easter Sunday) I had a vivid picture of life and death and saw that this seemingly indifferent attitude on... Continue Reading →
I confess I have left the whole Lenten self-examination thing a bit late this year but finally this week I've dragged my soul in front of a 360 degree mirror and it wasn't a pretty sight: bashed, bruised and attempting to sulk in corner pretty much describes the situation. A series of demanding circumstances, a... Continue Reading →
I have a problem controlling my mouth. 'Keeping it shut' and 'Feeding it too much' are the most common mouth problems I know and, although I'm occasionally afflicted by these, my current problem is simply pain: my teeth hurt. It feels like someone has put an orthodontic brace around my front upper teeth and tightened... Continue Reading →
Listening to Radio 4 this morning I heard there was a new cure for a serious disease: gin therapy. 'Really?' I thought, 'That can't be right' I thought about it a bit more: 'It must have been 'gym therapy' - ooh, dear, I don't fancy the sound of that'. Turns out it was 'gene therapy'!... Continue Reading →
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