Articles in the colwyn bay Category

Hiraeth:3
Posted in colwyn bay on 8 November 2009

I promise I won’t pine for North Wales in any more posts after this one: plenty of deep insightful theology coming next week kiddies.

This is an incredibly bad photo:-

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I take incredibly bad photos….

I took

Hiraeth:2
Posted in colwyn bay on 7 November 2009

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That sense of longing has, for me and my wife almost become as Jews intone at Passover: ‘next year in Jerusalem’…. ‘Next year in Colwyn Bay/Rhos-on-Sea’.

It is not as if I don’t feel at home where I live now (and

Hiraeth:1
Posted in colwyn bay on 6 November 2009

‘Hiraeth’ is a welsh word that is untranslateable in English. It means something like ‘longing or yearning for home’ (I know at least one welsh speaker reads this and may be able to correct me).

Last week I spent a

What I may well be doing today part 14
Posted in Rhos on Sea, colwyn bay, cricket, holiday on 5 August 2009

Is dreaming of cricket….

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…..ok I will have spent more than a few spare moments trying to get Radio 4 on longwave to catch up with the Ashes ( ‘I’m just going to check the oil/see if I left

…isn’t ‘ecumenism’ a boring concept?
Posted in church, colwyn bay, ecumenism on 18 June 2009

Don’t get me wrong…. I love it when churches work together. My biggest issue is that a lot of ecumenism I have encountered has been about doing as little as possible that might threaten ‘my’ way of doing things (and this is