Which is just as well as we are holidaying in the UK this year. So instead of my usual thong and sandals I shall be kitted out in a wet suit and wellies – nice.
I haven’t been on here in a while and when I do return I like to see how many hits I have had and how they found me. It seems that some people came here via a page on the URC web site where they list what they like to call ‘URC bloggers’. So I popped over to see my blog in lights… but what’s this? I am nowhere to be seen!! Have I been removed, struck off the URC blog register!! What did I do to deserve this, has someone been monitoring my recent lack of church attendance, or worse, has someone actually read the bloody thing?
Anyway, whatever the reason, I thought it might be time for me to read a few of the blogs there and after 2 or 3 it struck me what the problem was with mine… I haven’t just got back from a recent trip to the holy land.
It would appear from my (limited) research that the main criterion for getting your voice heard in the URC these days is some holiday snaps from Palestine and a moving account of the terrible conditions in which the people live ‘where Jesus walked’ you encountered on your ‘journey’.
I can sort of see the point of going to Isreal from a historical and political perspective. The place is strewn with so many Biblical reference points and locations and absolutely littered with the tragic victims of an intrangable political situation. But really, it what way does it speak to ministers and religious leaders (on neither side of the political divide) taking time out from their thoroughly middle class, suburban, or even urban, situations?
So where am I holidaying? Well I am going on an epic odyssey to the spiritual home of my VW camper van – Cornwall. I shall be so tired from just waving at my fellow vdubbers on the road that I shall need a holiday, but not one in the ‘land where Jesus walked’, I prefer the land where he walks today.
