Ross Moughtin
Our servant Queen
By any reckoning, a truly remarkable person. Of course, we all saw it coming. We knew that the age of 96 the end of the reign of our...
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Ross Moughtin
- Sep 2, 2022
When battered by a bad press
AN unholy row has erupted following claims that a local vicar has divided his parish. So reported the Champion free newspaper in all of...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 26, 2022
The joys of location-sharing!
“Dad! – my daughter instantly whatsapped – You’re such a stalker!” 😂😂😂 In fact, I was only asking her during the recent extreme...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 19, 2022
Knowing the right Way
A key epiphany. I can’t recall the precise date in 1973 but I do remember its precise location: West Derby Road in Tuebrook, just by the...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 12, 2022
When faced with the graveyard shift.
“Phew, what a scorcher!” Well, it looks like another sweltering weekend ahead, a bit more than many of us can cope with. According to...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 5, 2022
Our most daring presumption
“Father!” So I begin my prayers each morning, taking Jesus at his word to use this word to address the creator and upholder of this...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 29, 2022
If God doesn’t show up, we’re stuffed!
“If God doesn’t show up, we’re stuffed!” This declaration by Mancunian Andy Hawthorne has to be the best definition of Christian...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 22, 2022
When others fall down
“Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself.” Then the...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 15, 2022
When we weed for beauty
“Talk about the big Poppy takeover” commented the daughter who was initially responsible. Alongside our house there is a 30m flower...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 1, 2022
Our most momentous technical advance?
What would you consider to be “the most momentous technical advance in history?” Quite a question! Vaclav Smil, a Canadian academic and...
Ross Moughtin
- Jun 24, 2022
Our need for adventure with Maverick
“Your instructor is one of the finest pilots this program has ever produced. His exploits are legendary. What he has to teach you could...
Ross Moughtin
- Jun 17, 2022
God, the God of the 'despite'
A key moment in the Party at the Palace was when the full glory of Joseph's technicolour dreamcoat was displayed, the highlight of the...
Ross Moughtin
- Jun 10, 2022
God knows how to bless
“Lord, bless this mess” prayed the late David Watson as he considered his leadership of his church in York, a church which was to have...
Ross Moughtin
- Jun 3, 2022
Humour and humility: our Queen
“Incredible! headlines this morning’s Daily Express. In fact, every newspaper this morning – the Guardian, the Financial Times and even...
Ross Moughtin
- May 27, 2022
Where there is new Wine
Bonjour! We always enjoy visiting M. Baranger. As a vigneron, he produces the most exquisite of wines, especially the regional Cabernet...
Ross Moughtin
- May 20, 2022
You did not desert me, brother-in-arms.
This blog comes to you from a unique location, from where the very first Allied opposed landing took place during WW2. And it’s not in...
Ross Moughtin
- May 13, 2022
There was a young man from Hong Kong
I write: “There was a young man from Hong Kong.” And you immediately start to compose a line with eight syllables concluding with a word...
Ross Moughtin
- May 6, 2022
Our conversations are to be different.
Sadly I wrote out the address with the familiar postcode probably for the last time. Over the years wherever we go – even if just for...
Ross Moughtin
- Apr 29, 2022
God's faithfulness - despite everything
If you want to get really depressed, read 2 Kings, the book in the Old Testament which covers the final years of the kingdoms of Israel...
Ross Moughtin
- Apr 22, 2022
Let us not mock God with metaphor
It either happened, or it didn’t. There is simply no middle ground. To quote the American novelist, John Updike, “Let us not mock God...
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