Seven thin barrels of oil eat seven fat barrels of oil.
And we’re not at the beginning.
We’re half way through year seven.

“follow the whole of your nature and write the book that only you can write, and see what happens”

(Philip Pullman, a man with whom I have significant disagreements, but these words are displayed largely and prominently by my computer. In practice I omit ‘the book that’ and substitute ‘what’. Hence, ‘let us be human’ and all that shall follow from it.)

John Stott: “I said Christ and the biblical witness to Christ. But the really distinctive emphasis is on Christ. I want to shift conviction from a book, if you like, to a person. As Jesus himself said, the Scriptures bear witness to me. Their main function is to witness to Christ.”

I seem to recall being accused of ‘neo-Barthianism’ when I made the same argument a while back.

(HT BBA)

There was a really strange light on the beach this afternoon, opalescent. I suspect the air was saturated with moisture, as if it wanted to rain but couldn’t get its act together. Tried to capture something of it with these piccies, but as always, you can’t.

When I was taking a kids confirmation class once, I began it by teaching about ‘wow moments’ as times when God is (probably) present – when life seems to hang together with sense and energy and all the lights switch on.

Via BBA I discovered one: “played ‘heroes’ in my living room with david bowie”

which I’m sure was a wow moment for Moby.

It’d be a wow moment for me.

I’m not sure I’ve ever had a wow moment quite on that scale. I wonder what it would be.

Possibly: giving a Peak Oil presentation to the senior bishops of the Church of England (half of whom know me already). That would be a wow moment.

Not an unrealistic ambition either (grin).

You can listen to the first of my LC talks here.
(Many thanks to PB for technical support!)

I’ll put up a transcript at some point – but don’t hold your breath.