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Some things take time – like War and Peace
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peacein 20 minutes” quipped Woody Allen. “It involves Russia.” So hats off to...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 29, 2016
Facing the perfect storm
Some more disturbing headlines this morning, First, another major weather event, as the US north east seaboard awaits snowmageddon....
Ross Moughtin
Jan 22, 2016
To give God the first
It is Friday today, isn’t it? I ask this because here in Tenerife each day is the same. I can see us missing the flight home through...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 15, 2016
To see reality differently
It is the year 2052. Works of literature are banished and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart. So I did. That is the...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 8, 2016
Can God be trusted with a blank cheque?
Do I trust God with a blank cheque on my life? That is essentially the challenge of the Wesley Covenant Prayer used by many British...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 1, 2016
The wonder of Christmas
Merry Christmas, folks! It may be Christmas Day but it is still a Friday, which means my compulsion to blog. (I should seek counselling...
Ross Moughtin
Dec 25, 2015
Joy, not jollity, when all is bleak
Fascinating tweet yesterday from London vicar (and Guardian columnist) Giles Fraser: "Blue Christmas" service for those who hate too...
Ross Moughtin
Dec 18, 2015
When we stand (or sleep!) for justice
“When I work with the poor they call me a saint; when I ask why they’re poor they call me a communist.” So said the Roman Catholic...
Ross Moughtin
Dec 11, 2015
Prayer as opt out
Prayer as opt out. That was the message of the front page of New York ‘Daily News” following the San Bernardino shootings on Wednesday....
Ross Moughtin
Dec 4, 2015
To share Jesus is to push on an open door.
Beware: I have just completed a four-day course. “Transforming Conversations.” For the record, I had to. Three-line whip from the...
Ross Moughtin
Nov 27, 2015
How not to pray hard.
On hearing news this week of a friend’s grim prognosis, Jacqui’s instinctive reaction was to say that we must pray hard for them. Of...
Ross Moughtin
Nov 20, 2015
When all we hold dear is destroyed
It was 75 years ago when my father cycled in the moonlight through the medieval streets of Coventry for his night shift as a railway...
Ross Moughtin
Nov 13, 2015
When you are lost in the fog
You may have missed it but Ormskirk made national prominence yesterday, on the Radio 4 Today programme. John Humphreys, in reviewing...
Ross Moughtin
Nov 6, 2015
What makes me God loves me
Lovely email last night. At present I am working on my sermon for Remembrance Sunday, telling the story of one of those men whom we...
Ross Moughtin
Oct 30, 2015
Why the parish church? Why not?
“Well, at least the tower is still standing!” Returning home along the M58 our church tower invariably comes into view at junction 5,...
Ross Moughtin
Oct 23, 2015
Fighting the popcorn – an exercise in concentration
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! (rustle, rustle) in form, in moving, how express and...
Ross Moughtin
Oct 16, 2015
What the point of coincidence?
Since starting on page one in July, last night I finally reached page 864 - the end of Donna Tartt’s bestselling novel, the Goldfinch. ...
Ross Moughtin
Oct 9, 2015
How to think in a fast spinning world
Getting up this morning I thought: “Blog: harvest thanksgiving.” And as I was eating my porridge, a simple structure came into view....
Ross Moughtin
Oct 2, 2015
When compassion and courage meet reality
The greatest challenge of our lifetime - but we can’t say we didn’t see it coming. I recall watching on BBC way back in 1990 a...
Ross Moughtin
Sep 25, 2015
When saying sorry is not enough
How do you say “Sorry"? I read in this morning’s Guardian that John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor, has apologised from the...
Ross Moughtin
Sep 18, 2015
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