sinclair on sin

I’m posting as a separate page a copy of an article written by Rev JS Sinclair titled ‘The absence of the sense of sin in present day religion.’ It’s here, abridged and ever so slightly edited from its original version.*
My copy is in the format of a stand-alone tract, which somebody gave to me thinking [...]

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meet edward

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the laptop situation

All credit to Tim (the Friendly Humanist) for the post you’re now reading.
Since the demise of my laptop at the end of last week, I’ve been as helpless as that catastrophe tends to render you. Unable to email, write, read, or indeed blog from home, I’ve had to resort to frequenting the department at all [...]

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failure on all hands

Tramping through the grey-brown sludge that counts as our most recent snowfall, it transpired my boots leak. I also need a new Disclosure form, which currently means a 4-week wait and I don’t have four weeks. Then there’s a statutory notice on our tenement – the roof needs fixing. And I’ve just received a letter [...]

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in the meantime

The cheapest trick in the blogging book – when you’ve got nothing of your own to say, point readers to others. So:

Seraphic
Neil
The Wanderer

- All of whom have now been promoted to my list on the right hand side of the page.
And a post by Matthew at the Holdfast:

Experiential theology

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well, it amused me

I mentioned to a non-linguist the other day that I was going to a meeting of the Linguistic Circle.
This is in fact Edinburgh’s research group for local and visiting academic linguists, but my friend innocently inquired, “Linguistic Circle? Is that a bit like circle time?”
I suddenly got this amazing image of the LEL staff members [...]

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praying for your patients

The case of Caroline Petrie hit the news a few days ago, with Cranmer covering it in typically forthright fashion. Caroline Petrie is a nurse, who was suspended by the NHS after a patient complained about her offering to pray for them.
“Nurse Petrie cares for the sick and elderly, and does so with a vocational [...]

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