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Where I am now on a foreign shore I stand every week.
So a riddle for you: “Where I am now on a foreign shore, I stand every week.” Incidentally, the ancient Hebrews loved riddles, such as...

Ross Moughtin
Aug 19, 2016
Shortcuts make long delays
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller clearly hasn’t travelled with my good friend,...

Ross Moughtin
Aug 12, 2016
When you need your father to finish.
“If you're the Olympic champion,” mused Usain Bolt, “then they have to wait four more years to get you again.” True – but Usian’s time...

Ross Moughtin
Aug 5, 2016
In Jesus' name, just do it.
Well, folks, this is going to be a challenge. Here we are in Silver 7 on the outer reaches of the Royal Bath and Wells Showground, some...

Ross Moughtin
Jul 29, 2016
On being the vicar's daughter.
The Guardian for one was intrigued. Theresa May and Angela Merkel, discussing our future post-Brexit on Wednesday and both clergy...

Ross Moughtin
Jul 22, 2016
When faced with evil, our only effective weapon.
"L'horreur, à nouveau." This morning’s headline for Le Figaro says it all. A lorry has ploughed through a crowd during Bastille Day...

Ross Moughtin
Jul 15, 2016
To be remembered for just one single event.
This blog comes to you from the Suffolk coast, from the picturesque town of Aldeburgh, where we are staying with old friends Sandy and...

Ross Moughtin
Jul 8, 2016
Security in a fast-changing and dangerous world.
1 July 1916, 7.30 am. I am writing this one century later, virtually to the minute. The Battle of the Somme has begun, the worse day...

Ross Moughtin
Jul 1, 2016
Brexit – as we sail over the horizon
So, folks, it’s the open sea. I grew up facing the open sea, living very close to the beach at Waterloo. As a child I would look...

Ross Moughtin
Jun 24, 2016
Being prepared to face the media.
This time yesterday morning Paul Knight was having his breakfast, thinking about the day ahead. No doubt as vicar of St Peter’s...

Ross Moughtin
Jun 17, 2016
I've been scammed. Ugh!
I’ve been scammed! It was my own fault, of course. I lacked vigilance. Our E111 cards for health care while abroad in Europe needed...

Ross Moughtin
Jun 10, 2016
Discipleship that will change the world.
"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ." Tough words from pastor Dietrich Bonheoffer who died at the...

Ross Moughtin
Jun 3, 2016
Nothing is ever gained by denying reality
“You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.” So concluded the much-travelled Star Trek's Captain Kirk. This goes for nations as well as...

Ross Moughtin
May 27, 2016
Nothing is ever gained by denying reality
Hi folks, “You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.”. So concluded the much-travelled Captain Kirk. This goes for nations as well as...

Ross Moughtin
May 27, 2016
I collect capital cities.
I collect capital cities. And so this morning we fly to Hungary in order to add Budapest to my collection. There is something strangely...

Ross Moughtin
May 20, 2016
Litter: why small actions count.
I hate litter, for what it does and for what it represents. This time yesterday some passing sociopath opened their car door just...

Ross Moughtin
May 13, 2016
My personal battle with ground elder
My annual battle with ground elder has now resumed. It’s not that ground elder is in any way harmful or even ugly: it just takes over. ...

Ross Moughtin
May 6, 2016
The theological significance of Ed Balls Day
Slow start this morning. Still recovering from Ed Balls Day. It didn't help with 28 April being on a Thursday this year but this didn't...

Ross Moughtin
Apr 29, 2016
When Christian is always a noun, never an adjective
This blog comes to you from Barcelona of all places, a city I have been visiting off and on since a teenager. In many ways it is very...

Ross Moughtin
Apr 22, 2016
How God enjoys rearranging ranges
“Ross, you don’t realise how significant your card has been!” Yesterday Jacqui and I travelled the nine miles over the moss to Formby,...

Ross Moughtin
Apr 15, 2016
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