A warm welcome from me too @Toby Perks . If you haven't already have a look at the Ten Commandents. We're a friendly bunch and looking forward to sailing with you.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
Welcome! What do you like to read? Huge C. S. Lewis fan here, plus comics and other stuff.
I read eclectically and very widely. Lewis, of course! Also quality crime novels; the natural world; foreign literature (Dostoevsky to Djann!); masses of 'Theology," from Bulgakov and Hart (DBH) via Barth, MacDonald, Jersak, Kruger, the Torrance brothers, Kung...A great fan of Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk from Turkey, as well as Ellie Griffiths and Ian Rankin. I'm not sure I will ever get to the end of my "To read" shelves!
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
Welcome! What do you like to read? Huge C. S. Lewis fan here, plus comics and other stuff.
I read eclectically and very widely. Lewis, of course! Also quality crime novels; the natural world; foreign literature (Dostoevsky to Djann!); masses of 'Theology," from Bulgakov and Hart (DBH) via Barth, MacDonald, Jersak, Kruger, the Torrance brothers, Kung...A great fan of Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk from Turkey, as well as Ellie Griffiths and Ian Rankin. I'm not sure I will ever get to the end of my "To read" shelves!
Some of my favourite authors and thinkers tucked away in there! Welcome, @Toby Perks.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
Welcome! What do you like to read? Huge C. S. Lewis fan here, plus comics and other stuff.
I read eclectically and very widely. Lewis, of course! Also quality crime novels; the natural world; foreign literature (Dostoevsky to Djann!); masses of 'Theology," from Bulgakov and Hart (DBH) via Barth, MacDonald, Jersak, Kruger, the Torrance brothers, Kung...A great fan of Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk from Turkey, as well as Ellie Griffiths and Ian Rankin. I'm not sure I will ever get to the end of my "To read" shelves!
A warm welcome from me too @Toby Perks . If you haven't already have a look at the Ten Commandents. We're a friendly bunch and looking forward to sailing with you.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
It was pointed out on another thread that the Welcome thread seems to have fallen into the briny during the move, so here's a nice shiny new one.
If you're new to the Ship, or back after a break, do please introduce yourself here and we'll point you in the direction of the teapot/drinks cabinet/comfy sofa.
Hi all! My name is Toby and I live in Sheringham, North Norfolk, UK. I found you through a recommendation by my LLM Mentor, as I have just been invited to start training from August! I am retired (from advertising & PR, teaching and retail management, respectively), so variously busier than ever. I write a blog, read voraciously, work with dogs (for friends), walk a lot and am passionate about being an ambassador of Christ's Kingdom of Heaven-and-Earth! A glance around reassures me I am with Family here. Thanks for this amazing space.
Welcome! What do you like to read? Huge C. S. Lewis fan here, plus comics and other stuff.
I read eclectically and very widely. Lewis, of course! Also quality crime novels; the natural world; foreign literature (Dostoevsky to Djann!); masses of 'Theology," from Bulgakov and Hart (DBH) via Barth, MacDonald, Jersak, Kruger, the Torrance brothers, Kung...A great fan of Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk from Turkey, as well as Ellie Griffiths and Ian Rankin. I'm not sure I will ever get to the end of my "To read" shelves!
Some of my favourite authors and thinkers tucked away in there! Welcome, @Toby Perks.
Thank you! I can't believe I left out the man whose books fill a big section of a bookcase > Tom (N.T.) Wright! "The Day The Revolution Began" sums up his life's work, imho.
A "too read" shelf (or pile, depending on how you organise books) isn't meant to be finished. It's meant to be added to, with some of them eventually read. But, never to be finished.
Welcome @Toby Perks I have only recently discovered Ellie Griffiths but I need to go back and read the books I had out of the library again as I had, as it were, overbooked myself.
Might I ask what LLM is? (In my world, it means “Master of Laws,” but I’m guessing that’s not what’s meant here.)
Licensed Lay Ministry?
Welcome aboard, @Toby Perks - we're not such a bad old bunch! 🙂
Thank you. Yes, LLM is Licensed Lay Ministry, replacing the long-used title "Reader" as the job got so much bigger!
Welcome to the Ship, and may you enjoy your time aboard. Just a hint - avoid using LLM and suchlike. The Ship is read worldwide and while you and others in parts of the UK may understand them, many of us elsewhere are completely lost. Like Nick Tamen, I tried to make sense of Master of Laws, but it just didn't fit.
A "too read" shelf (or pile, depending on how you organise books) isn't meant to be finished. It's meant to be added to, with some of them eventually read. But, never to be finished.
I have a "to read" list which I am unlikely to finish, and a "too read" list, which I am unlikely to even start.
If you've just come up the gangplank, have a wee look at the 10 Commandments and FAQs (links on the home page), and they should tell you all you need to know about what's what and who's who on the various boards.
Hello everyone. I just had a weirdly inexplicable impulse to pop in and show my face, having failed to participate (or even lurk) for several years. Not sure what that's about, but I assume one of you god botherers has been remembering me in your prayers or something spooky like that, so I'm undoubtedly here under the compulsion of one of your omnibeings. Sorry, Omnibeings. You'll know who you are.
Anyway, I love all of you whom I met here, and I continue to think of my Olde Shippe Days with huge affection and gratitude. FWIW I continue to reflect very soberly on many of the lessons I learnt here about faith and the people who profess it and those who can't or don't or won't. I learned more than I deserved during my time here, and continue be altered by it like some sort of object the trajectory of which gets wonked by the gravitational field of a massive and fabulously distant thing. It's not a slingshot I'm afraid, dear Shippies, but it means a lot to me.
Loving hugs and hugest thanks,
Mike
who was dogwonderer, then Faust for a bit, then Fudd when I left
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Licensed Lay Ministry?
Welcome aboard, @Toby Perks - we're not such a bad old bunch! 🙂
Thank you. Yes, LLM is Licensed Lay Ministry, replacing the long-used title "Reader" as the job got so much bigger!
Thank you!
Thank you! I will read, learn and digest!
I read eclectically and very widely. Lewis, of course! Also quality crime novels; the natural world; foreign literature (Dostoevsky to Djann!); masses of 'Theology," from Bulgakov and Hart (DBH) via Barth, MacDonald, Jersak, Kruger, the Torrance brothers, Kung...A great fan of Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk from Turkey, as well as Ellie Griffiths and Ian Rankin. I'm not sure I will ever get to the end of my "To read" shelves!
Some of my favourite authors and thinkers tucked away in there! Welcome, @Toby Perks.
Thank you! I can't believe I left out the man whose books fill a big section of a bookcase > Tom (N.T.) Wright! "The Day The Revolution Began" sums up his life's work, imho.
Welcome to the Ship, and may you enjoy your time aboard. Just a hint - avoid using LLM and suchlike. The Ship is read worldwide and while you and others in parts of the UK may understand them, many of us elsewhere are completely lost. Like Nick Tamen, I tried to make sense of Master of Laws, but it just didn't fit.
It's a fun avatar!
Ooh - so do I!
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I have a "to read" list which I am unlikely to finish, and a "too read" list, which I am unlikely to even start.
Hi all. I see it's been a couple of years again. Somewhat eventful for me.
How's things?
* stands in the corner awkwardly *
And welcome back, @Grayface! I hope the last few years have been eventful in a good way.
If you've just come up the gangplank, have a wee look at the 10 Commandments and FAQs (links on the home page), and they should tell you all you need to know about what's what and who's who on the various boards.
Happy sailing!
Piglet, AS host
Welcome!
Sarasa
Another AS host
Wlcome back @Grayface
Anyway, I love all of you whom I met here, and I continue to think of my Olde Shippe Days with huge affection and gratitude. FWIW I continue to reflect very soberly on many of the lessons I learnt here about faith and the people who profess it and those who can't or don't or won't. I learned more than I deserved during my time here, and continue be altered by it like some sort of object the trajectory of which gets wonked by the gravitational field of a massive and fabulously distant thing. It's not a slingshot I'm afraid, dear Shippies, but it means a lot to me.
Loving hugs and hugest thanks,
Mike
who was dogwonderer, then Faust for a bit, then Fudd when I left
Bless.
I remember Faust for a bit.
Welcome back 🙂🐾
So you can probably blame me...
Anyway, wonderful to see you!
Welcome back, @ƒudd!