This is a record of our Willy Wonka birthday party last week and in particular, the media, food and games we created for it in the few hours before the party. Maybe it will be helpful to others doing the same thing. Thats me on the left, dressed up as Willy Wonka. I welcomed people…
Read MoreCruelty-Free Chicken Runs
Update: Tesco criticised for £2 chickens and rightly so. Talk at the pub last night revolved around cruelty-free diets and the effect of the recent Chicken Run Series on Channel 4 by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. I really liked what Hugh did and what he was trying to achieve in making his town completely free range. For…
Read MoreHappy Hour: Virtual Monastery, House Churches, Emerging Church UK and USA, and Emerging Church Bloggers/Christianity 2.0
My Happy Hour is this coming Monday, 12th November at 5pm GMT (London time) on Shapevine.com. That’s midday in New York. Come with questions for my very special guests who are turning up through video cam. They include: Bob Beltz, an author of numerous books and creator of the world’s first virtual monastery. He is…
Read MoreRowland Whitehead (Bilbo) visits Orkney
Rowland Whitehead is only here for a day but its an enjoyable time together. Rowland was part of the UK house church movement in the 1960’s and is now encouraging new things in Barbados. We have been chatting about the history of the Jesus movement and the similarities with the current emerging church movement. I…
Read MoreWe gotta BOAT!
Our first boat. My father always said “Dont buy a boat. Just have a friend that owns a boat” which was good advice at the time. But this one came up and we couldnt resist. We live a stones throw from the ocean. All our friends sail. The family have sailed a little but always…
Read MoreEaster weekend in London
We are in London at the moment, staying with Shannon Hopkins near the Tower of London. Easter celebration for 20 people tomorrow. Anita Roach from LA is here with us – havent seen her since Greenbelt 4 years ago. Wales was great. Saw the house my grandad was born in. We also spent a night…
Read MoreSam’s Birthday
The last of the January birthdays. That makes 3. Samuel is our eldest and he turned 16 today.
Read MoreHannah
Our dauughter Hannah celebrated her 9th birthday on the 13th. A noisy happy party with lots of girls. Hannah told us today what she wants to do when she grows up: She says she wants “to travel to other countries to tell people about God.” We figured she was headed in that direction. Isnt that…
Read MoreMy Christmas Gingerbread Waffles with Boysenberry Sauce.
I have been asked for the recipe for my Christmas gingerbread waffles. I have to admit that the first time I cooked them for my Christmas guests they were really boring and so I revamped them for Christmas eve with extra cherries and nutmeg and chunks of Chinese stem ginger and they came out far…
Read MoreGrace to Ewe: Our Cruelty-Free Diet
UPDATE: See the latest on our cruelty-free chicken co-operative and what we think of Hugh Fearning-Whittingstall’s Chicken Run series right here. Some of you are asking what i mean by "Cruelty-Free", as in our Cruelty-Free Christmas Feast that we enjoyed a few days ago. I didnt want to post on this right before you started…
Read MoreOur Cruelty-Free Christmas Feast
I am not a man given to boasting, but if i must boast, let me boast in the Lord’s bountiful provision of game, seafood, grass fed beef, and the many culinary blessings of the Orkney Islands. Especially around Christmas time. We have been working on our Christmas feast since summer and are really excited about…
Read MoreMy wife’s Knit-work is spreading.
Bea Marshall was in the paper last week in Sheffield, she told me when i was there for dinner. And my wife Debbie got a mention as “the friend who knits for her five children” and the one who inspired Bea to start knitting again. The influence of my wife precedes me . .. Click…
Read More15 Year Old Binge-Drinkers Need a Happy Hour
Young people need a happy hour at the dinner table with their family. Let me explain what i am thinking. I saw some stuff on TV a few weeks ago that got me thinking. UK has a serious problem with badly behaved, foul-mouthed, binge-drinking youth. [Sounds like they interviewed that church youth group I visited…
Read MoreYIKES!! My Wife Is Gone For Over 2 Weeks
They say you should never send a woman to do a man’s work. But the fact is, Debbie and i have been partnering in this funny thing called ministry (which is co-ed, btw) for about 20 years so I guess I can trust her to represent the Jones concerns. Actually, she often does better than…
Read MoreThe Bible Commentary and the Blog of Chris Seay
That chapter I was writing for a new Bible commentary has been released. Its called The Dust Off Their Feet: Transitioning the Church to Conform to His Will Then/ Now and it’s a commentary on Acts written by a number of emerging church practitioners. My piece is on Acts 10-13 from a missiologist’s standpoint, and…
Read MoreFamily Update: school holidays and foster kitten
This is our family yesterday. School holidays starts today and the house is NOISY with our kids and their friends. Technorati Tags: beer, kitten
Read MoreHappy Birthday Abigail
My daughter Abigail turns 11 today. She blogs at gabigail95.bebo.com. Go to her bebo powered BLOG at Gabigail95.bebo.com [bebo rocks and totally blows off Myspace!] Leave a comment or even better, take the quiz “How Well Do You Know Abigail” and see if you do better than I did. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABIGAIL!!!!! In case you…
Read MoreA Day at Alton Towers
Biggest treat of the year for my kids – we took them to Alton Towers on Saturday. Alton Towers, unlike its American counterparts, does not have a cool fake castle facade made of stucco so they have to put up with a real 17th Century castle instead. You can see it in the background. 8…
Read MoreNew Scottish Beer: The Island Bere
Fabulous beer called “Island Bere” launched last night at the Stromness Hotel in Orkney. So good, in fact, that i had to go all the way home to get my wife. Lucky that we live only a few doors down. This is Debbie and I congratulating Sonny Priest, the brewmaster from Valhalla Brewery in Shetland…
Read MoreMark Palmer is Gone
Mark Palmer died yesterday in Ohio. Many of us got to know him through his blog where he allowed us into his life and his battle with cancer. He is on my “Vintage Theoblogians” hall of fame. I think i will leave him on it. Mark was an early blogger to the international Christian blogosphere.…
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