I am planning to be in Australia soon. In Sydney, I will be speaking at a conference in St John's Park Baptist Church on the priesthood of all believers. We will also visit Melbourne.
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Trip to Australia
I am planning to be in Australia soon. In Sydney, I will be speaking at a conference in St John's Park Baptist Church on the priesthood of all believers. We will also visit Melbourne.
10 paintings of potato pickers
This was prompted by a question on a recent University Challenge.
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| David Thomas Robertson (https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-Potato-Pickers/F480408DC5A285BB45E8383422599F96) |
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| Ralph Hedley (https://shop.artuk.org/potato-gatherers-northumberland-36012.html) |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck (https://www.wikiart.org/en/maurice-de-vlaminck/potatoe-pickers-1907) |
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| Jules Bastien-Lepage, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Evelyn Mary Dunbar Potato SOrting, Berwick (https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/potato-sorting-berwick-204892) |
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| The King Everywhere, Robert Müller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Ernest Higgins Rigg (https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-potato-pickers-23550) |
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| Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Jean-François Millet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| László Pataky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
Lord's Day Auguust 23 2026
I need to stop saying "my last Sunday in Childs Hill". Anyway on one of my last Sundays yesterday I thought I'd round off with a look at Ecclesiastes 3:1 in the morning and then went to Isaiah 35:3, 4 in the evening. Decent number in the morning, even though some are away. Into double figures in the evening, which is good these days. A lady who has been before came with her visiting sister wuite late on but I hope they got something.
Thames Path South 17 - More Pics
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| Canary Wharf form the Southbank |
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| Nelson Dock |
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| Animal Procession (Surrey Docks Farm) |
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| Greenland Pier |
Thames Path South 17 (Surrey Water Quay - Greenland Pier)
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| Obelisk Near Pageant Stairs |
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| Globe Wharf |
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| Free Trade Wharf from the Southbank |
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| Surrey Basin Bascule Bridge |
Did another section recently. Went to Bermondsey once again and had a coffee in J'Amocha then got a bus back to where I left off last time. One or two dead ends in this walk so only one section covered.
10 Part Scale of Ex-Christianity according to Andrew Wilson
- James Boswell, professing to be a Christian and realising that it is now an option rather than a requisite
- Immanuael Kant and others who want relgion within the bounds of reason
- Rousseau and other advocates of civil religion
- Benjamin Franklin, David Hume and other irenic Deists
- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and others who oscillate between being irenic and polemic
- Voltaire and other polemic Deists
- Franz Anton Mesmer and others who pursued their own paths
- Diderot, d'Holbach and other combative atheists
- The cult of reason followers who led the French Revolution
- The Marquis de Sade and other God haters
See page 143 of Remaking the world
Death of Andrew Davies
We note with sadness the passing of a stalwart of the faith in Andrew Davies. When I went to London Theological Seminary in the early eighties, he was one of four Welshmen who did the bulk of the teaching. (The others were Graham Harrison, Philip Eveson and Hywel Jones). Mr Davies took us for church history (except that for one term he was off with a back problem) and it was often noted that his lectures became more like preaching than lecturing. I remember him telling us at some point that when we preach we are to strike when the iron is hot not to make it hot, an idea that he said is in Christmas Evans. I also remember him asking the class what is the purpose of preaching. Any number of answers were given but none that would satisfy him. Eventually, and I will never forget it, he said in a way that only Andrew Davies could, that the purpose of preaching is to move, to move the people. I may have resisted the idea at the time, even though I had already learned it from my pastor, Derek Garwood. Over the years I have come to believe it more and more strongly. Andrew Davies himself was always moved when he preached and he often moved the congregation too. What a loss. We pray for the family that remain.
I hear the funeral will be on September 14. So sorry I'll be out of the country.
Midweek Meeting August 19 2026
For my last midweek meeting there were six of us in the room and two or three online. We looked at Psalm 79, another neglected psalm, and then prayed.
Thames Path South 15, 16 - More Pics
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| Sunshine Weekly and the Pilgrims Pocket |
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| Mayflower Pub |
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| Rotherhithe Research Picture Library Sands Films |
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| St Mary the Virgin Rear |
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| Old Free School, Rotherhithe |
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| The Angel Public House |
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| "Leaning Tower of Rotherhithe" |
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| Christopher Jones Memorial |
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| Rotherhithe Watch House |
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Thames Path South 15, 16 (Cherry Gardens Pier - Rotherhithe Tunnel)
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| Dr Salter's Dream, Bermondsey Wall E |
Another two sections covered this week. I went back to Bermondsey and then walked down to the path, which is fairly clearly marked at this point Managed a comfort at St Mary the Virgin. Got a bus back to Bermondsey then.
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| Hays Court |
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| Brunel Museum |
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| Rotherhithe Tunel Ventilation Shaft South |
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