I consider myself relatively well-read, so I am a little depressed by my results when I consider this list of the 100 greatest novels of all time.
I have read 15 of them. I better get cracking I think.

My Nana died last night. It is an incredible relief. For the past five years or so, Nana has had dementia and not known who we are. She even at times would ask, when her husband would visit and he had died a number of years ago. For the past four days she has been […]

Over at our St Stephen’s musings I read this quote. I thought it was simply wonderful and challenging.
“Jesus said “Take eat,” not “Take, understand, dissect, systematize, rationalize, deconstruct, recontextualize…then eat.”

I remember my sunday school. I remember that there were enough kids in the sunday school that it was separated into two groups. My sister and I were always separated and allocated to different groups.
We competed, swapping stories as to who had the coolest group, who did the coolest activities and who had […]

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I can’t stand people who instruct their secretaries to make their phonecalls for them - they are effectively arranging for their secretaries to ring me up in order to put me on hold - “I’ll connect you now - [clunk][[holdmusic]]”
Apart from anything this makes me, as someone who answers the phone informally, normally by saying […]

The actor who plays the role of Jesus in Mel Gibson’s controversial movie The Passion has been struck by lightning on the film set.
The assistant director was also struck by lightning in the same incident, the second time that he has been struck by lightning during the filming.
Hint to movie directors - stop filming during […]

elliott smith was one of my favourite artists, who died two days ago of a single knife wound to the chest, apparently a suicide.

Future butterfly gonna spend the day higher than high
You’ll be beautiful confusion
Ooh once I was you
I saw you caught between all the people out making the scene
And a bright ideal tomorrow
Ooh, don’t […]

Emerging Church Chat on again tomorrow…. see sidebar for details.

For some time here at signposts we have followed the example of George Bush in calling our prime minister the man of steel. Today we find out that “man of steel” is texan for fair dinkum.
I still prefer the Superman image.