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And the word is: HALF-WIT!

How to resolve conflict in churches

Posted: 30th January 2012 by graham in Church, church culture, smile

Conflict within the leadership teams of churches can do great damage, and reconciliation is not always easy to achieve. This is how the situation was resolved in one church overseas. Could this be a solution in churches in the UK? See here for link.

Do we really believe that the path to eternal life is narrow? So narrow that not even atheist hippy pop stars will make it in? Don your shallow thinking cap and come wander some contours of meaning in this parody of Rob Bell’s Love Wins book trailer. My friend John sent me this and I [...]

Superhero socks are sold out

Posted: 29th October 2011 by graham in smile

If you go to superherostuff.com you will see that these Robin socks are not longer in stock. They have sold out! How can that be? How may people would have bought a pair? And what for? Where on earth could one wear something like this? Perhaps they are just the thing for cycling through York on [...]

What does this man do? I met a nice chap last week at a business meeting to do with the Christian Unions at the two local universities. I had not met him before so was particularly interested, after exchanging emails about something, to click a link at the foot of his email. The link took [...]

Some Deadly Words Women Use

Posted: 5th October 2011 by graham in smile

If only I had known about these 9 deadly words used by a woman when I was first married it would have given me such a head start. Although I have been married over 30 years, my wife saw this and thought I might find it helpful to have this translation list. She found it on [...]

I will not ask you. Because I don’t want to know, but… Some people, when they’ve blown their nose, they open the hanky and look at it – study it! There is nothing special about that observation but… I was in the Laura Ashley shop. I had walked through with Penny, using it as a [...]