On Saturday evening there was a programme on the American Dream. The documentary looked at the link between faith and the Dream. It was fascinating seeing things like the Positive Thinking message of Peale and then the mystic influences on the hippy movement and the rise of the American Right on issues like homosexuality and […]
Read More Depictions of FaithI was hearing someone else talk about Christianity being about ‘a relationship not a religion’ and reflecting on what they meant, but what they actually said. What they meant was to highlight the crucial pivotal role intimate personal relational input is to understanding Christianity. What they said was that Christianity is not a religion implying […]
Read More Not Just For The Sake Of ItI am a positive person. I’m a natural optimist actually. I don’t know who I got it from, or how I got it, but that is the way I am. I haven’t reached the ultimate point of seeing the best in everyone and everything yet, but there is a strong part of my brain that […]
Read More Some People Are Beyond Your HelpI’m a big fan of the character Stone Cold Steve Austin. You have not got the wrong blog, this is the entry you are meant to be reading in the right blog place. I do not condone his anti-authority stance. I do not condone his tendency to resolve matters by stomping and stunnering people into […]
Read More The Bottom LineI think sometimes we have it all wrong. I think sometimes we think the chief end of life is to be happy. Sometimes I get the impression we think that’s the goal. It’s definitely evident in the advertising and programme making of some. It’s the undercurrent of a lot of what goes on in our […]
Read More The Pursuit of HolinessThis evening’s entry was scheduled to be on Essentials, but some news I received today sent me over the edge and something I had planned to write on later has to be expressed now at least in part. I don’t know if you’ve ever raged at God, but I know I have. I’ve been aware […]
Read More On Outrages, Injustices, Travesties and TraumasI’m not in a tricky position, but I am in an interesting scenario that I reckon one or two people might understand. I’m working for a training organisation that respects equal opportunities and celebrates diversity in no way looking to enforce one view over another (although even that is enforcing the false view of not […]
Read More Anything Wrong With Person-Centred Counselling?Recently I was sharing how perspective helped to change a potentially very difficult situation into something extremely positive. Worth reading to catch up on exactly where we were. I need to establish a bit of a context for this. I arrived home from a disorienting day at work where I didn’t feel that I fitted […]
Read More What Problem? Perspective, Praise and Overcoming – Faith Hall of FameThis is the third in a series of blogs on the topic of my growing understanding of what family is. I started at the beginning – which has to be a first … probably. I established what family was in the formative years in my life. From there I went onto talk about the radical […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Living With The LawrencesYou should know by now, that I’m one to interrupt things just when the flow is on the go. So we’re enjoying the whole family feel and there’s more things to say on the subject, but something happened today that meant a little bit of a change to the flow. It’s still to do with […]
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Life With CD 