Category: Personal
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Notting Hill Carnival
Yesterday, Mrs Phil and I headed down to Notting Hill where we met up with Foz (a uni friend) for the Notting Hill Carnival. I’d never been before, so I was really looking forward to it. The day itself didn’t disappoint: we arrived at about 1PM, and made our way down to watch the main…
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Holiday Bible Club and Birthdayness
It’s been a busy week for me! Just over a week ago, on the Sunday morning Phil and I headed down to St Simon Zelotes to see Mike Neville (former rector of our old church in Colchester), and then have lunch with the Nevilles and a couple of other people afterwards. It was a really nice…
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Out, Damned Spot!
A few weeks ago, I blogged about my mole. Well, I finally had the procedure on Monday. I went into the hospital, lay down on the bed, and the doctor cut into me and removed the mole – under a local anaesthetic. It was technically a ‘skin excision biopsy’, the biopsy part being because they’re…
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Still Alive…
Sadly, I’m not doing science. But I am still alive. It’s been a good couple of weeks! As I mentioned before, we went on holiday to Wales with some friends from college. We were staying in a holiday home in Borth-y-gest, not far from Porthmadog. We had a lovely time – with the exception of…
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Placements and Holiday
I’ve been a bit lax about updating over the past few weeks! This is just a quick update to let you know what’s been going on: Two-week parish placement in Colchester (at St Andrew’s Greenstead). Very much enjoyed it, and I will hopefully write some more detailed reflections about that at some point. During the…
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Reflections on a year of theological college
Well, I’ve done it. I’ve completed a year of tuition at Oak Hill. Unless I have to do any retakes, academically this year is over for me. “For me, ze year is over…” It’s gone scarily quickly, and I can’t quite believe we’ve reached this point. It feels like hardly any time is past since…
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I’ve got this mole, you know…
… it’s making a hell of a mess of my garden!* So starts Jasper Carrott’s “The Mole” routine – to my mind one of the best starts to any comedy routine ever. Well, I actually do have a mole, but not the kind that digs in your garden: it’s the skin kind. It’s on my…
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1 Timothy 2: An alternative reading?
In my previous post on 1 Timothy 2 and the created order, I questioned the view that Paul’s prohibition of women exercising authority in church is grounded in the created order. In this post, I’d like to examine an alternative view, one which I think makes more sense to me. I don’t pretend that this…
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That’s a wrap, people.
That’s right, a whole year has now been and gone. An academic year, that is – this time last year I still had an actual proper job (which just highlights the amount of difference 12 months can make!) We moved down here last August, so by my reckoning we’ve been here about ten months. Not…
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Status Update
Things have been getting a bit heavy once again on this blog recently (sorry!), so I decided to write a quick update about how things are going with me. Funny how things have changed since this time last year – last year I was basically only writing personal updates. Now it’s the other way round,…