Category: Index

Image of the day – INDEX

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I’m posting an image every other day, or as often as I can.

Hint: Click near the top of a thumbnail to open an image, or click the underlined text to read an article.

The higher you look, the less you see
What an amazing photo!
Helping a charity with lights
Cotinus in autumn
Cirencester Abbey
Shade and light in a park
Tree shading
Mosaics underfoot
Cloud reflection
Latest news on the lion
Smallest Police station?
The Lake District
Living fossils
Silicate crystals in Cotswold oolitic limestone
A grand old house in Cirencester
What do we see here?
Caring on the water
A glorious orchid
Tired as a dog
Another umbellifer
Bumble bee on cranesbill
Umbellifers
What a aload of rubbish!
Footbridge in Bedford
A glorious sunset
Swans on the river
Geese on the river
In the lemur enclosure
Cow and calf
Enigmatic computer
Rotated parking
An early photo
Hoarfrost on berries
The Sopwith Pup
Pasqueflower
not used
The heart of a tulip
A glorious colour contrast
Bare trees along the horizon
Terraced border at Blenheim
A view of ancient remains
Installing our heatpump

The world’s smallest
A blot on the landscape?
Mist arising
Sheep, a street, and a home
Holes in a wall
An old survivor
Inside out
From the stone age
The marine lake
Meeting old friends
Wall art in Weston
Knightstone Causeway
Comet G3 (Atlas)
Lichens
Really?
A quarter of a million miles
Cirencester gasworks
Sunset over sheds
Photos the old way
Sculpted tree
An Irish scene
Titanic
Fine weather
Firethorn berries
Castle Street
Light from street, Moon and planet
Reflecting on Christmas lights
A Cotswold scene
Dark sky, bright light
Christmas cactus
Frosty cobweb
Low cloud at Christmas
Mixed mushrooms
Seventeen Haiku on Covid
Fallen tree
Churn flood plain
Churn flooding
Cirencester hospital

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Developing faith – INDEX

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Image from latest post

This index brings together posts on the gradual process of spiritual development or spiritual formation during my life.

Church as a network – INDEX

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Network of networks

Networks are good for connection and communication. Examples include the internet and the road system (sometimes actually called ‘the road network’). Connection and communication go hand in hand, network connections are the channels and network communications are the messages.

This index lists articles on aspects of church as a network.

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Ad hoc posts – INDEX

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Image from latest post

This index links to my ad hoc posts, they may be on more or less anything. These posts are reactions to something I have seen, read, or heard recently, things that I want to deal with individually and usually within a few days.

Science and technology – INDEX

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This index links to my posts on science and technology topics.

SpaceX Starship

Science is the study of the natural world, covering matter, energy and the multitude of interactions they can be involved in. Technology draws from scientific results to create useful tools and processes.

So, for example, astronomy is scientific, but space flight is technological; geology is scientific but creating a building with stone is technological.

Forward look – Ukraine… – INDEX

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This is an index page, from here you can browse around all the articles in this series, or find a particular one you’d like to read.

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Canal walk – INDEX

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This index links to my posts on walking the Stroudwater and the Thames and Severn canals in Gloucestershire.

Wallbridge Lock, Stroud

The sections are short (up to three or four miles), but they can be concatenated to make whatever length might suit you best. And if you just want a short stroll, each article is divided into sub-sections; you can choose a part that you like and walk that smaller piece.

Chalford to Daneway is longer, but I plan to rewrite it as two parts.

‘Greatest thing’ republished – INDEX

The analysis excited me, Henry Drummond confirmed what I already knew to be true – this new life in Christ is all about love.

Here’s a modern English version of Henry Drummond’s ‘The Greatest Thing in the World’. His wonderful essay on love was originally created in 1884, and it analyses Paul’s famous chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians. Well worth a read!

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Read it online or download it
  • The modern English version is available to read or download online (a couple of the links in the PDF no longer work, I’ll correct them when I can).
  • The Victorian original is also available.
  • Many printed versions are available too, take your pick.
Article series

You might enjoy this series of short articles in which I examined Henry Drummond’s essay in more detail.

Why create a new version?

Why have I gone to the trouble of translating this essay into modern English? Basically, because it deserves a wider audience. Years ago The Greatest Thing was often reprinted as a booklet and was very popular. I remember buying a copy in Wesley Owen’s on Park Street in Bristol back in the 1970s when the language was still less than 100 years out of date. It was a great read and it helped to change my life. The analysis excited me, Henry Drummond confirmed what I already knew to be true – this new life in Christ is all about love. At the same time the little book challenged me and drew me on.

This great essay is no longer widely known or read. It deserves better. It will speak to readers today just as it always did. Read it!

Acknowledgements

And finally, I just want to thank the family members and friends who read my early drafts and made helpful suggestions, pointed out errors, or were just encouraging. You know who you are.

Licencing

Copyright in the original has expired while the new version comes with a Creative Commons licence. So please feel free to print or republish either version and distribute it as widely as you like.

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Blast from the past… – INDEXDecember 2025December 2025

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This is an index page, from here you can browse around all the articles in this series, or find a particular one you’d like to read.

Blast from the past… 13 – December 2023
Blast from the past… 12 – November 2023
Blast from the past… 11 – October 2023
Blast from the past… 10 – September 2023
Blast from the past… 9 – August 2023
Blast from the past… 8 – July 2023
Blast from the past… 7 – June 2023
Blast from the past… 6 – May 2023
Blast from the past… 5 – April 2023
Blast from the past… 4 – March 2023
Blast from the past… 3 – February 2023
Blast from the past… 2 – January 2023

Blast from the past… 1 – December 2022