Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  Click here for audio recording.  Well singer songwriter, Bruce Springsteen may have been “born in the USA”, but he has recently been over this side of the pond. “The Boss” as he’s affectionately known in the world of rock, played to some big crowds in Cardiff, Ireland and Sunderland, and while he was here he actually picked up the prestigious Ivor Novello fellowship award for his contribution towards the music industry, having sold more than 140 million records, and having won an Oscar, a Tony and 20 Grammy Awards. He received the award from fellow legend Paul McCartney who gently mocked him , saying that he couldn’t think of a more fitting recipient… “except  Bob Dylan, or Paul Simon or Billy Joel or Beyonce, the list goes on”. I remember in the 80s being shipped out to France as a 12-year old on a school trip to improve my French, and stayed with a young couple who played “Born in the USA” on repeat. It left quite an impression on me! Well I was quite struck by someth...

Click here for audio.   A member of our church ran the Milton Keynes marathon last week. She said that as she was running along, she overtook someone who was running the whole marathon backwards! Wow, that is seriously impressive. I mean it’s hard enough to run a marathon forwards. I do a little jogging from time to time, and I’ve done the parkrun and a 10k race, but 36 miles, that’s a long long way. But to do it running backwards…. I don’t think we were designed to run backwards, it’s probably a whole different set of muscles, and then of course, you can’t see where you are going. Apparently running backwards is a thing- it’s known as retro running [1] , and for some people it’s the only way they can run a marathon [2] . Well, when I heard about this, I thought, maybe there’s a bit of an analogy. How many of us are doing life running backwards? Rather than facing forwards into the future, we are going through life facing backwards. Perhaps it’s due to a sadness in the...