Fiction, Food, Faith and everything in-between

      Image from https://blog.creationlife.com/unity-in-diversity/ Life Together – Paul’s Challenge to Us. Gal 3:28 - There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. It goes without saying, that this is a very challenging verse. It would have challenged the early church and the people listening to Paul, but it also challenges us. Here we have a verse which is basically saying that there shouldn’t be any barriers between Christians, but there are all sorts of divisions in our society and in our world, and these divisions also have a way of affecting our church life. Paul is challenging the early church and he is challenging to us today to be different. So, what divides us and where are the barriers? A starting place that can help us understand these divisions is our equalities legislation.  The Equality Act 2010 aims to tackle disadvantage and discrimination in the UK. ...

  St Philips Sermon, Sunday 6 th March 2022 Deuteronomy 26: 1-11, Rom 10: 8b – 13, Luke 4: 1-13 In our Gospel reading this morning, Jesus faces temptation in the wilderness. We can relate to this because we have all experienced a kind of wilderness during the past two years. It has been a wilderness of Covid, of grief and loss. Things may have improved but the future of this virus is still uncertain. So, we are free in a sense, but cautious as we learn to live with Covid. During the pandemic, we still experienced the familiar difficulties of our world. Our world is always turbulent. Social injustice, war, civil unrest, and environmental challenges are not new, and sometimes the violence and the suffering of the world can feel relentless, and now we have war here in Europe on our doorstep. We learn to live with the difficulties of our world. It is part of the human experience, but this constant turbulence has a way of eroding wellbeing even when the troubles may not affect us d...

I have started watching Anime. I love manga and graphic novels, and anime can be hugely entertaining. The characters are always so vibrant and there are some really great storylines out there. Recently I started watching 'Yuri on Ice'. Released in 2016, this anime tells the story of an unsuccessful Japanese figure skater - Yuri Katsuki - who is badly defeated at the skating Grand Prix final. He leaves the US where he has been training and studying and returns to Japan to lick his wounds and decide what to do next. Yuri loves eating Port Cutlet Bowls other wise known as Katsudon. Yuri has a skating idol who has won five skating World championships and the Grand Prix Final and lots of other stuff. He is the Russian skating god Viktor Nikiforov. Yuri has always idolised Viktor and emulated him from a very young age and he does so again. He learns the same routine that won Viktor the gold medal at same Grand Prix Final at which Yuri w...

I love nuts of all kinds and so I was quite excited to try out Paul Hollywood's Peanut Bread. As you can see from the photos about it urned out ok but it was quite heavy. A bit too heavy for my liking but I still ate it. Despite the heaviness it was nice and tasty, even more so when eaten with peanut butter. So then I decided to make Peanut Butter cookies. This is another Paul Hollywood recipe which I saw him promote on Facebook.  These are lovely. Full of flavour and sugary, with a nice nutty crunch. I have stashed half of them in the freezer for a rainy nutty day.