this week…

… I’ll only be at a computer irregularly, as there’s a big child-language conference on at the university until Friday. Today I accidentally spoke to a famous person, spotted my external examiner in the distance, and helped staff the aptly but ineptly named Mugs Desk. More here, if it interests you.

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the psalms rediscovered

Here’s an article on Reformation 21 which gives reasons for singing psalms in worship (at the very least alongside hymns, but without disparaging exclusive psalmody), and which suggests that something of a resurgence in psalm-singing is underway at the moment in the church at large:

Rediscovering the Psalms by Joe Holland.

As a taster of this fairly [...]

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gallivanting again

Right now I should be packing. Tomorrow I’m going north for a wedding and to spend the weekend in a location so remote I don’t even have mobile phone reception, far less the Internet.
For amusement in the meantime, try Wordle, which gave this output for this blog:

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making contact

Here’s something I read recently – from a sermon by a minister called Alexander W Brown, who pastored in Free St Bernard’s, in Edinburgh, sometime in the nineteenth century.
The text was Luke 6, and included v19, which mentions the crowds which surrounded Jesus, consisting of many people with various diseases, who wanted to touch him [...]

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intermission

A couple of photos from home, where I’m on holiday for a week.

Yachts in the harbour, and below a seagull on an arrogant perch. Note the evidence of sunshine.

I’ll try and post something more substantive soon, I promise.

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snippets from Traill

Short and sweet, full of things to ponder.

“Christ himself is the way to heaven, as he is a slain Redeemer; and Christ himself is heaven itself, as he is a glorified, enjoyed Redeemer.”

“You need no more to secure your right to eternal life, than to be possessed of Christ by faith; and you need [...]

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