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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.
Latest Posts
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DJ Mix Archive
Some of you may know, I used to (and still do) do a bit of DJing. I used to have a bunch of mixes uploaded when I had my own webspace, however since I switched to using WordPress hosted I’ve not had a central place to host them (I did try SoundCloud, but that has…
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John 19: Jesus’ Trial and Crucifixion
As alert readers will no doubt be aware, I have been studying John recently (you can read my previous blog posts on the subject here and here). I promised in my last post that I would blog about John 19, and I thought this would be as good a time as any – particularly while…
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Quick Life Update
It’s been a funny old month. Quick a lot seems to have gone on over the past month or so: Phil and I had our 20-week scan. My Mum died, and the funeral was last Friday. On top of all that, I’ve had a ridiculous amount of work to do college-wise. At the moment I’m…
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Saul to Paul: A few thoughts on Acts 13
One of the things which struck me about our New Testament course this year was the idea of narrative criticism, i.e. reading the text critically (analytically that is – not ‘critically’ in the popular sense) as narrative. I’d never really thought about the gospels in that way before, and it’s been colouring the way I see…
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Mum [1945-2013] – A Tribute
As some of you may have seen on Twitter and Facebook, my Mum died yesterday. She lost her battle with lung cancer, which I’d written about previously. The picture on the left was taken at Christmas last year; it’s probably one of my favourite pictures of her. It’s amazing to think how much things changed…
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Not dead!
That’s right. Just wanted to post up to say, I’m not actually dead! I’m just working very hard. Things have been pretty mental at Oak Hill this last term. I’m working on a seminar for John 19 at the moment (well, not right at this moment, obviously. Not today, even. But you get what I mean.)…
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A time of Expecting…
After all the heavy stuff I’ve been talking about over the past few weeks and months, it gives me great pleasure to announce… we’re expecting a baby! 🙂 We had the 20-week scan today at the hospital. Everything was fine, the baby seemed to be doing well, the heart is beating fine, and it was…
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The Raising of Lazarus
As I mentioned in my post on the woman at the well, I’ve been doing a class on John’s Gospel the past couple of months. It’s probably been my favourite class of this year, which is no small feat! John is such a rich gospel, and it’s been a real privilege to spend some time…
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Site Update: Comments
Apologies for site-related updates! I have decided to close comments automatically on posts which are older than 30 days old. In general this is because the only comments I get on old blog posts are spam, and this is an attempt to try and curtail that. Akismet is pretty good at catching most spam comments,…
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Game Dev Tycoon
The past few days, I’ve been busy playing Game Dev Tycoon, which was mainly because of this excellent stunt they pulled to do with piracy (read the post, it’s worth it). Anyway, I’ve been pleasantly surprised: I haven’t bought a game in ages, so I thought it was high time I got into something. And…