General All-Purpose Quick Prayer From Bed
Lord, Thank you for my warm and comfortable bed. May I do all I can to help others who do not have this blessing. Amen
View ArticleEqual Marriage Discussion in the Belfast Telegraph
Originally posted on Faith and Pride: I have had a letter on equal marriage published in the Belfast Telegraph. The letter was shortened a bit for publication. The original is below. Dear Sir, With...
View ArticleShould I try Toblerone?
As of the time of publication I have never eaten a Toblerone. Unfortunately, due to an incident involving multiple amounts of cat vomit, I have no trousers that are both clean and dry, so I can’t...
View ArticleA Time to Embrace, and a Time to Refrain from Embracing
About this time every year I tend to start thinking about my father. This is partly because it will soon be Fathers’ Day, but it is mainly because it is coming up for the anniversary of his death....
View ArticleLove the sinner, hate the sin?
Originally posted on Faith and Pride: The adage “love the sinner but hate the sin” is often used in discussions of Christianity and same-sex relationships, usually in a context where someone is saying...
View ArticleRemember, some of us are both gay and Christian
Originally posted on Faith and Pride: I have had another letter on same-sex marriage published in the Belfast Telegraph. IT seems that much of the coverage of the gay marriage cake affair has...
View ArticleThe Biblical view on being gay and a Christian
Originally posted on Faith and Pride: And another letter published in the Belfast Telegraph. I take the Bible just as seriously as any other Christian from Northern Ireland. If there were really a...
View ArticleEqual marriage in Gibraltar
Originally posted on Faith and Pride: I have had a letter on equal marriage published in the Gibraltar Chronicle. Although I have only lived in Gibraltar for a short time, I have been much struck by...
View ArticleChristians and the Conscience Clause
Originally posted on Faith and Pride: Christian consciences have been a concern since the days of the New Testament. A long time ago, a wise man called Paul the Apostle gave advice to the Christians...
View ArticleBiscuits
The biscuit was invented, in 1822, by the famed Georgian architect William Henry Jonathan Arthur Blanchard Biscuit. His invention was completely accidental. In the early 1800s the population was...
View ArticleGaudy shirts and ill-fitting jeans: a response to Orlando
I’ve had about four hours sleep, and it is largely down to the news from Orlando. On Facebook, I have seen someone comment on PULSE, saying that it was a place where people in “ill-fitting jeans and...
View ArticleGraded Objectives in Modern Equality
Back in the early 1990s, I was studying for my GCSEs. The year before I sat my GCSE French exams, I sat another set of exams in French: a NISEAC Graded Objective in Modern Languages. The Graded...
View ArticleDiversity and Equality
Diversity and equality are two things that we hear about a lot today. Both are terms that most of us probably understand, but they are curiously hard terms to define. An organisation can be said to be...
View ArticleRemembrance, Solidarity, Celebration
Today is a day of remembrance. HIV has killed so many people, from the famous like John Boswell and Freddie Mercury, to those who were known only to their friends and family. Every life lost to HIV is...
View ArticleSeven Years Ago Today
Seven years ago today, my life changed forever. Seven years and one day ago, my life was not in a good place. I was all but completely estranged from my family. I was single, and I was lonely. I had...
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