Archive for June, 2009

// a week off

This is just to alert you that i won’t be updating this blog in the next week; i’m off to Madrid to work with an organisation called Betel. It’s a Christian drug rehabilitation program, but that doesn’t really sum it up adequately – watch this space in a week’s time and i’ll post some thoughts [ READ MORE ]

// on chicken goujons, and Psalm 23

I’ve started cooking properly again in the past few weeks, for the first time since about January. Actually taken the time and effort to chop and plan and watch this dish cooking, I mean, rather than just shoving stuff in the oven and then removing twenty minutes later. It’s tasted better than any food i’ve [ READ MORE ]

// plea for help

As i was buying my copy of the Big Issue from Dean, one of the sellers who i try to regularly support here in Oxford, i asked him how he was. He told me that his dad died this weekend. What was i supposed to do, or say? I mumbled some expressions of sorrow, blurted [ READ MORE ]

// uh-oh.

A number of my friends have finished their final exams in the past few days, and it’s always interesting watching the way in which people choose to react to this event. Broadly speaking, they tend to fall into one of two camps: those who want to get wasted, and those who want to sleep for [ READ MORE ]

// bad habits and enlightened eyes

It’s funny what it takes to make you see clearly every now and again. Last night, on the walls of the club that i ended up in – a club owned by a high-profile, well-known company, and a major venue in the centre of Oxford – the owners had chosen to project pornography on the [ READ MORE ]

// songs for summer (1)

  • June 5th, 2009
  • Posted in music

Summer necessitates new music, so here’s some of the music that’s made it onto my ipod recently: * Modest Mouse: “Float On”: Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has the weirdest voice, but stick it out to the Chorus and you’ll find that this song embeds itself into your brain and simply refuses to go away… * [ READ MORE ]

// this is what love looks like…

Something about what Heidi Baker said a couple of weeks ago stuck in my mind – one particular phrase, to be precise. “Love looks like something.” Simple, admittedly, but also possible to miss entirely… What does your image of love look like? There’s a couple of simple, stock Christian answers – first, that our image [ READ MORE ]

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