Why?
Copies of The Times of India and The Hindu started being thrown up our stairs once again, complete with wrinkles. I did think about getting out the iron, but then decided against it…
This morning. The second page in The Times of India. Look at it. Do you know another newspaper that does this kind of thing – regularly?
Just look at the graphics and information so carefully prepared for me. “A set of facts to clear the most common misperceptions about migration.” I’ve poured over them. So fascinating.
Having offered such praise, is the heading next to #2 correct? I am a bit confused by this one.
“Eat your heart out, The New Zealand Herald. I saw one of you at the airport in Singapore on Saturday. Dear, oh dear. What have you done to yourself?!”
nice chatting
Paul
About Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.
Recent Posts
It was my very first training seminar with Langham Preaching. April 2009. We were based at the OMF Guest House in Chiangmai, Thailand. As I wandered the property, I came across this striking quotation on one of the walls: So striking, in fact, that I stopped to take its photo! But is it really true?…
Ten years ago, Ode to Georgetown was my response to being surprised by grief when the only church I had ever pastored closed its doors. Last week brought the news that the theological college which I attended, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), was to close most of its Chicagoland campus. I have been feeling a…
I am neither painter nor poet, musician nor actor. With Art and Music and Drama classes at school, I was present in body—but absent in spirit and skill. However, as a teacher, there has been the occasional flare of creativity in the crafting of assignments. One of my favourites is one of my first ones.…
John Stott was the first one to help me see the tension in Jesus’ teaching on salt and light. They are pictures for how his disciples are to live in society. Salt pulls them in, keeping them involved. Light holds them back, keeping them distinctive. Being light responds to ‘the danger of worldliness’, while being…
Hi Paul,
We'd like to use an photo we found on your blog that you took of John Stott's grave for a powerpoint in a sermon on Psalm 49 at Jesmond Parish Church to be shown on Clayton.TV, a Christian TV Internet site. Would it be OK for us to use it?
Many thanks Zoe Earnshaw
No worries – thanks for asking, Zoe
Paul