About

An insomniac Scots Calvinist looks at the Church and the world and wonders how we managed to get ourselves into such a mess.

The title of this blog is not, as some have suggested, an allusion to the concept that we can see “the world in a grain of sand.” Nothing so poetic. I was merely thinking of being a minor irritant in a barely sentient mollusc which may, however improbably, produce a pearl.

I have been asked if it would be possible to use the material on this blog elsewhere.

As an experiment, for a year, I am going to publish nothing in print. No dictionary entries, no journal articles, no magazine pieces, no squibs for Ministers Forum, no letters to the Times signed ‘Disgusted, Possipark,’ nothing. So, if there is anything here you want to use, quote or cite, go ahead. Refer to it, cut and paste it, copy entire, provide a link, use it as you will. But be assured that if you find anything of mine in print during the next year – you read it here first.