A spiritual slap in the face – by a butterfly
I hardly ever go to our local church other than for the usual hatches, matches, and despatches. I have never been religious and usually call myself an agnostic. I probably still do. But two things have happened in my local village church in recent years that have made me think. One was in the summer [...]
A special funeral
A guest post by Sue Goodrum, Civil Celebrant How many of us think about our death? It’s not an easy subject for most of us to consider. If we did though; wouldn’t we want a funeral specially made for our family and friends to say goodbye in a way that we would like them to remember [...]
What in God’s name….
A philistine writes on what’s wrong with today’s religion… I often apologise for my poor education and lack of culture, but for once I’m not going to apologise for the fact that I am appalled at the current brouhaha about Roman Catholicism and what it really stands for, especially in what is thankfully becoming more [...]
When has Monitoring gone too far?
When I first started at work it was a case of ring the company for an interview, no CV required, up for an interview looking smart and then, after smiling a lot, starting on Monday. Times change and so has the questions you now answer on application forms. I do understand why they ask what [...]
A woman’s right to choose
A story broke last week concerning Sister Margaret Mary McBride, an administrator and member of the ethics committee at St Joseph’s Hospital Arizona regarding her excommunication by her Bishop Thomas J Olmstead for being involved with the decision to allow an abortion. The Mother of the unborn child was suffering from a life threatening illness [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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