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About Me

/ .. I live and work (www.xlp.org.uk) in Tower Hamlets with the awesome young people of London. And I have a PhD in Psycholinguistics. (All you need to know is that it's about words and your brain. And no it doesn't mean that I know what you're thinking when you're talking to me. I wish it was as useful as that.)
I read this in a book at the Rothko Chapel:
"O God, the keenest eye sees only a minute portion of Your greatness. Even the mind of a genius perceives but a little of Your glory. Poets labour to express Your splendour, sages stammer in their effort to describe you, but in vain. All our learning is but a grain of sand on the shores of an infinite sea of knowledge. We cannot comprehend or name You. The mystery of Your works is a riddle we cannot solve. We can only stand in awe of the Infinite. And yet we reach out, hoping to grow toward Your light."
I don't know who said that. But whoever it was they sure were right.
"One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day." I â™¥ Anne Lamott.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Jesus in the flesh. don miller. philip yancey. stephen sondheim. bernadette peters. zach braff. dermot o'leary. anne lamott. adrian lester. mother teresa. kevin spacey. vince vaughn. martin luther king. ben folds. the apostle paul. gandhi. vic reeves and bob mortimer, the inventors of this:
.. .. .

and noel fielding please:

My Blog

fun in london

today i became the proud owner of a mini london A to Z. i feel like it has the potential to revolutionise my life. not that i spend a huge amount of time in london, you understand. b...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:58:00 GMT

what's wrong?

gave a talk along these lines at a school CU yesterday. just musings on a couple of things i'd been thinking about over the weekend really. although those things just happened to be a film...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:46:00 GMT

minster ball excitement

aaargh... so excited about tonight. singing. here:
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:27:00 GMT

juliet and jesus

gotta love listening to sermons on your ipod. lately i've been being amused and riled and challenged by mark driscoll on the issue of women in the bible. one thing i love about mark: he is u...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:00 GMT

sometimes i feel like this

"My mind is my main problem almost all the time. I wish I could leave it in the fridge when I go out, but it likes to come with me. I have tried to get it to take up a nice hobby, like mac...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:30:00 GMT

doing phd corrections sucks

seriously, has to be one of the most annoying things i've ever had to do. what probably doesn't help is i'm being really stroppy about it. swearing loudly probably wouldn't help in the gra...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:40:00 GMT

i love singing me

gotta love musical theatre. yesterday i auditioned for the early stages of bbc radio2's voice of musical theatre competition... had to sing a bit from into the woods in a group to start off with, then...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:27:00 GMT

what some online quiz made by someone i don't know tells me about my theology

i suppose that an online "what's your theological worldview?" quiz is kind of daft. but hey. i had a go anyway. go on, have a go, you know you want to: http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:11:00 GMT

scottish wisdom

I don't mind admitting this made me cry on the bus on the way to work this morning. From Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity: My friend Calvin Thielman, pastor in Montreat, North Carolina, tel...
Posted by on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:34:00 GMT

who says i let my ipod rule my life??

the result of putting my ipod on shuffle, and answering each question by skipping to the next song each time. pretty amusing, and predictably nonsensical in places. still, provided a nice ...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:03:00 GMT