To the Cross

Bishop Alan’s Blog: Spy vs Spy? When it comes to spy cameras, we scorn when it seems to be intruding on our lives, but when it results in a prevention of terrorist activity we tend to breathe a sigh of relief. That said, people may be (consciously or otherwise) anxious of a future power misusing spy cams to the point that "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide." (1984)

AN IMPRISONED COMMUNITY 'L ook around you', the Lord was saying, 'Look around you, what do you see?' I looked and I saw BARS. Lots and lots of bars. Horizontal bars, vertical bars, everywhere! The first sets of bars were on houses and shops AND THE LORD SPOKE TO ME OF THE PRISON OF MISTRUST The next two set of bars were more subtle, in order to hide their call to incarceration: The first vertical lines on a window that made up the shape of two nude ladies (not pictured). It was an erotic bar. The second behind the bars that formed this shop window - a cool looking dummy complete with shades and a casual top that portrayed casual sex as a means to love and peace and joy. God reminded me of a bar chart in the papers the previous day that dispelled these lies - it was a chart showing 500% increase in sexually transmitted diseases. But still that dummy screamed out at me: 'I want to make you into my own image!' But God showed me that that image was as plastic an...

For my first posting I thought I would register the moment that John Sentamu Admitted (and anointed) me into the office of Evangelist in Sheffield Cathedral. (July 12th 2007) It was an amazingly powerful moment and a wonderful and God blessed day. My first post is in the Almondbury Deanery in Huddersfield, where I hope to set up a 'fresh expression' of church, working primarily with children and families (possibility in the Dalton/Rawthorpe or Grange Moor areas).