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A packed Good Friday service 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
We made our plans very carefully and catered for about 70 - tea, coffee, hot cross buns, hymn books. All the surrounding churches were invited. We knew something special was happening when two young m...
Cheers! 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
No posts for a few days. I shall be here cheering like mad for the English team in the men's final and watching carefully the contribution of a certain preacher on note. Even the circuit super is comi...
A nail biting 80 minutes 25 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Well my disappearance for a couple of days proved to be very enjoyable. Our team won and we now have a gold medal to prove it. Congratulations, it was great day.
The County of Pembroke 25 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
I was having a bit of a sort out yesterday when I came across this photograph of my great-grandfather, Alexander Rowland Jones (right), in front of his engine the County of Pembroke No 3839. The famil...
Reform of the House of Lords now! 25 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
Some of my best friends are members of the House of Lords. I respect them. But I don't respect a legislative chamber with 800 members none of whom have been elected by popular mandate. The US does wit...
Church to spend thousands on Medieval mumbo-jumbo case 25 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
The British Methodist Church, which is always claiming to be facing serious financial difficulties, is about to launch an expensive legal case, the sort that will cost someone in the region of £250,00...
The night we were bombed 25 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
The shaft of light in the middle of this picture is a reminder that for a few hours in 1943 the future of our church was in the balance. A German raid had left a trail of damage through Rotten Park, t...
Open hearts, open minds, open doors and a Nazi past 25 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
We Methodists have a view of ourselves which excludes the possibility of our faith and practice being anything other than benign. We acknowledge that parts of the US movement were on the wrong side du...
The man who persuaded me that pacifism wasn't always right 25 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Today I rejoice that Ratko Mladic may soon face justice. His crimes in Sebronicia persuaded me that there were times when military force was necessary. My pacifism died with those he massacred. A co...
Imagine I did it my way 25 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
Dave Faulkner a Methodist Minister and blogger had a rare Sunday off yesterday, went to a church which he doesn't identify on a "no names, no pack drill" basis, and stumbled on one of the hobby horse...
