“I’m dazed and confused, Is it stay, is it go? I’m being abused, And I think I should go, Come on baby, I’m starting to crack, If you’re out to get me, You’re on the right track. Hey! Hey, hey! I’m dazed and confused, Hanging on by a thread, Come on baby, Do you want…
Sometimes there are people who touch our lives and make a positive impact. We may or may not know them very well, but there’s something about them that disturbs our world. The community of faith which I’m part of lost someone special like that this week. From our perspective she was taken from us prematurely,…
I didn’t expect a review of a TV drama to be mirrored by reality in news coverage within 24hrs. Looks like we’ve got a real life ladykiller, who evaded the long arm of the law. Seems The Beautiful South have inhabited the same sort of place in their writing as has Allan Cubitt. Either that or they had…
As a teenage boy, I quite liked the nickname given to me by one of my teachers. It was a lot more inventive for Mr H to tag me “Slicer” than to have to my schoolmates resort to the staple of shortening a surname to one syllable, or adding ‘y’ to the end of it.…
“Now bums just drink and wander round Tramps dream and wander too But a hobo was a pioneer who preferred to work for food He knew how his nation’s doing By the length of a side walk cigarette butt Born with an aching wanderlust Embedded in his gut… The last free men are hobos Steinbeck…
The events of the last couple of days have highlighted to me how readily we view things from within our own silos, or bunkers. It also raises questions about how accurate the recording of history actually is, depending on who’s doing the recording, and what prejudices and beliefs they bring to that task. We have…
“It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.” Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis. As CS Lewis pointed out, it's also pretty rubbish for a hallucination. (In a decent wishful-thinking hallucination, there wouldn't be the complication of your resurrected Messiah looking so different…) Let's give the folk around…
99 1/2 didn't do - so here, on Good Friday, Slicer celebrates that somebody did make it to 100. The final solution. The demonstration of love. The consummation. The achievement that allows us to continue. Last year's seasonal post was brought to you by the Man in Black, this year's is brought to you by the colour red, the letter…
Ever felt angry or hurt, and wanted retribution? For someone else, even if not for yourself? Is revenge a dish best served cold? Or is it easier to justify in the heat of the moment? What's a just punishment, and what's vengeance? Does delivery by a court prevent it being vengeance? Doesn't there need to be the ultimate…
[8-cell human embryo] Is an embryo a person? Given the title of this blog, it seems entirely appropriate to consider this Sliver. What is personhood? Is it something intrinsic, or is it something given to us (tho' these 2 need not be mutually exclusive)? Is it consciousness? Is it more than that? Is it unique…
Slicer's Slivers of Being 