Welcome to my blog...whatever image springs to mind, be it a hippopotamus, Tigger, red-haired Highland cattle, or a simple kitchen table, 'Unless a Seed' is a four-legged creature. My hope is that having read a Book Review, a Poem, or a What is a Christian? or some random post in Everything Else, you will be kind enough to leave a comment or a short reply. And I hope you enjoy reading its contents
What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
For Writers, Writing and Everything Else
Writing Process? What’s that?
A 5 minute-excellent-read guest post from Resolute Books writer Lindsay Humbold on how she goes about writing novels
Contentment Haiku 2: Early on the Water
Contentment Haiku 2…Bristol harbourside this morning before dawn, double-sculls on the dark water, small lights on bow and stern. Contented rhythm of oar in and out of the water
Far From Normal
Hmm…this poem came together with an overheard phrase: ‘Far from normal’ and every Physicist knows a Normal is 90 degrees to a surface and also about Foucault’s pendulum…I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Google.
It’s also an experiment in double Haikus
Suspended between the present and the future
More than Writers - monthly blog November ‘24
The Role of Eye-Witnesses in Historical Fiction
Association of Christian Writers (ACW) blog - 7th October 2024
Libraries, libraries everywhere…and not a book to read
Association of Christian Writers (ACW) monthly blog on the 7th
Book Review: Phoebe – A Story, Paula Gooder, Hodder & Stoughton
Rome AD 50 - Paul is on his way to Rome, Phoebe’s visit with Paul’s letter stirs up the church…and the past
A Tale of Two Pubs
I’ve painted this picture before, this time with more spit and sawdust, the other half of the Saturday story
The Moon is Watching
There was the morning moon looking down from a gorgeous pale blue cloudless sky…words followed
Objection 3: Hypocrisy, irrelevance, immorality within the church Objection 4: Impossible to be good enough
Objections to Christianity contd: hypocrisy and the impossibility of living the Christian life
Objection 1: Unreliable source material, the New Testament
The New Testament in the dock: Reliable? Genuine? True history? Evidence?
Objections to Christianity
"Christianity? No! Thing of the past if it ever really existed" 4 articles looking head on at why so few believe.
October 7th 2023 Remembrance
October 7th 2023 Hamas murder unarmed Kibbutz and Supernova music festival goers and take 251 hostages, 97 of whom are yet to be returned home. A poem of remembrance.