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Steve Tilley's Blog: RIPBB
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Friday, May 15, 2015. Before I heard you play at all. Your face adorned my bedroom wall. A pull-out poster which came free. With Sounds, or was it NME? But then, with no appropriate shoes. I learnt the simple twelve bar blues. Your grimace looked down from afar. At bent notes on my air guitar. An anthem from the southern poor. Played on the step outside the door. You woke up every morning down. The dog had died; the girl skipped town. You proudly told the newsroom hoards. So U2's Bono, your new chum.
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Curious Incidents
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Mark Haddon's novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' was a highly original piece of writing. The unreliable narrator has been an interesting literary device for many years. Haddon's narrator was a teenage boy, Christopher, with Asperger's Syndrome. Not unreliable but one who saw the world very differently to most of us. It has left Bristol now but will doubtless be around for a while. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nailsea, North Somerset, United Kingdom.
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Repentance
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Thursday, August 06, 2015. In Brian McLaren's book. Zondervan 2004) there is a chapter, towards the end, called. Why I Am Depressed -Yet-Hopeful. It is a remarkable piece of writing and in the final paragraphs he implores the reader not to read on without pondering, praying, reflecting or taking a walk to breathe. So what are the stories of my past that I should constantly tell to remind the world that I am part of an individual and corporate repentance? There are two. Firstly I live in the Bristol a...
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Decorating Vicarages
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Friday, July 17, 2015. How much care does the Church of England take over its housing stock? I have lived in tied housing for seventeen years of my ministry so have a few insights. The quinquennial system, a five-yearly survey, ensures that properties are maintained to a reasonable standard. They are provided unfurnished although some properties include an office/study with some church stuff in it. 1 Most parishioner decorating is competent but not thorough. Doors are not sanded and refitted. Rad...3 A p...
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Pants on Fire
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Monday, July 27, 2015. I am a liar. I have always been a liar. That's better. Get it all out there. Right To business. You know those personality profile tests you can do? I always come out as highly intuitive. In Myers Briggs terms, if it is N or S I get 30-50 N every time. Showing my working involves analysing how I got there. As a child I used to tell the truth. This got me into trouble:. Parent: Why did you do . (Insert wrong thing here)? Me: I don't know. Almost everyone wanted to know the thinking&...
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden. Somewhat renowned for the very late review I want to talk about an album from 1988. Why? Because I only heard it for the first time last Friday. Forgive me. In the early eighties Talk Talk were, for me, a perfectly adequate synth-pop band. A slightly unusual vocal style gave them an edge over all the other Yamaha DX7 bands out there. I realised, I had never heard. It is wonderful. Why is it essential? Your collection consists of Miles Davis' jazz classic.
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Ministry Tips 26-50
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Friday, July 03, 2015. 26 Don't mess with the flowers. 27 Don't mess with the Mothers' Union. They know people. 28 People who have pet services should be familiar with the juxtaposition of a mop and bucket. 29 You can go to the cinema on a working day. 30 Become a regular in one or two pubs and cafés. 31 Ask people how they like to receive feedback. 32 If children point at you in the street and tell their parents they know you, stop and tell their parents who you are. 46 Come to terms with your own morta...
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Missing Scripture
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Saturday, August 08, 2015. One of the joys of Daily Prayer is following the readings systematically through scripture. As one who does not give a glance to festivals such as the Feast of the Transfiguration it annoys me intensely if I find myself saying Morning Prayer with people who are strict about the lectionary rather than simply working out which readings to drop in. The sequence is broken. Mark has a question he sets for his readers. It is, 'Who is this man? If we omit these verses we may well feel...
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Steve Tilley's Blog: Rev - some observations
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010. Rev - some observations. A review of the just-finished TV comedy series. Made it as far as the front page of the Guardian this week. One or two episodes of. Attracted more viewers than some instalments of Big Brother (do people still watch that? And certainly got people chatting. There is an excellent review on Bishop Alan's Blog. So I won't cover old ground, especially when I'd do it less well. First thing to note is that. Thirdly, and this would be what I would want a post-.
