Like this:
One blogger likes this post.
Welcome to ASBO Jesus
Enjoy your stay and have your say! Cheers, Jon
Blogroll
- BigDaddyWhale
- birchmultimedia
- celtic difference
- changing worship
- dennis coburn
- frontier youth trust
- growing enthusiasm
- holy famoley
- iain cotton, sculptor
- jonny baker
- let them eat cake
- mark roques
- mindwriter
- naked pastor
- proost.co.uk
- Rainforest SOS
- reality bites
- sanctuary
- si smith
- sophia network
- stepping stones nigeria
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
huge thumbs up!!!
you’re not a royalist then, naomi?
fab:))
we were discussing at work yesterday what MBE could stand for ( other than the official title) came up with some good ones- but prob all too rude for here!
what is the actual function of having a queen in britain? a dumb question but i am miffed…
Pingback: Jesus and recognition…… an MBE? « Transformational thoughts….
The majority of offers of honours in the UK will be made by an ordinary Civil Servant. It’s only when the recipient accepts that the honours List is created, with the blessing of the queen.
But my version makes for a pretty rubbish cartoon.
Buzz, we need the queen, because without her, it would be David Cameron’s head on the stamps!
bob on …
wow, this just show’s how tiny a recognition an MBE is, who can name one?, (& Jesu’ MBE sounds a tad superfluous,) yet as a Muslim woman told me earlier – “every body loves Jesus”
Brilliant post – my thoughts exactly!
Very much enjoying your book Jon:-)
I know several people who have been given MBE’s, but most of the people I know have got them for doing jobs they are paid for- that strikes me as curious- but I also know of some people who have them for years and years of voluntary work- I can understand that more!
I sent your cartoon round the office today- caused lots of laughs!
Ah bless him. He’s so lovely.
And so’s she!
She’s getting quite focussed on her faith as she gets older isn’t she? Has anyone noticed.
Entirely natural and quite proper. Don’t think she’ll get exclusive though. She’s not the type (well aware many visitors to this blog share different feelings than that x)
Take good care
Sas
I’m imagining the Queen giving up all her palaces and wealth and going to live in a sheltered flat. Now that would be a miracle worth seeing..
yep, I agree Sarah, I do think the Queen is quite successful in trying to communicate her faith. – no mean feat when everything you say is listened too by folk everywhere. though I find her more on the morality and work ethic side, than the abundant, overflowing love and grace of a God who wants to invite you to join us on the New Earth
(guess, if she shared that kind of faith, she’d have to share a little more of the bounty?)
haha… i quite like the queen as a person, from what i see of her. she impresses me. she is unerringly dutiful and even as an elderly woman she still puts in the hours. god bless ‘er. that’s the queen as a person.
i utterly hate the whole idea of a monarchical system. i find it impossible to square with my conscience and my politics. i hate medieval land ownership, lordships, sirs and ladies… i hate that privilege is written into this country’s constitution. i hate that prince charles (who may well be a nice bloke) owns all the farmland around me. i’d rather my farmer friends didn’t have to pay rent on the land they farm and keep up. the land was nicked in the first place.
and now ‘honours’. they are a great way of the privileged classes feeling good about themselves. pat the good serfs on the back and issue a hearty ‘well done you’. also i hate the politics of it… if you lead a team or are the figurehead of a charity you are far more likely to get one than if you do all the real work.
this country still has it’s upper classes and it’s cannon fodder even though it’s not engaged in war quite like it was.
i also hate ‘empire’. i simply don’t like it. regardless of any arguments that many will make about the good done around the old empire by the jolly ol’ brits. the roman empire stank (regardless of their straight roads), the mongol empire stank, american imperialism stinks, the british empire stank. empires always have subjects and that stinks too. these awards are awarded in the name of the empire. to accept one you would either have to be a monarchist, an imperialist, or simply forgotten who you are. probably best just to get on with what you do and accept no reward so directly linked to so many questionable things.
i’m afraid i’m with benjamin zephaniah and c.s. lewis.
by the way. i have no problems calling someone sir… in fact i sometimes do… it’s just that i have to respect them.
i suspect a friend of mine may have been offered an award which he turned down… thing is, he’s not the sort of person to talk about it, so i’ll never know for sure.
another friend accepted one. i was, i must say, gobsmacked. as sonia said above… being given an award of the empire for work you’re paid to do seems ridiculous. surely your pay is your award. it all just seems a little unthinking. of course the organisation you belong to may get some coverage if you accept one… but is that really a good enough reason? to my mind, it isn’t.
Yes, lots of good points here. Sonia made a brilliant point about people getting the honour because it goes with the job. As far as I am aware, I only know 2 MBEs on a personal level. Both got the honours on the basis of their job. That is ludicrous…as ludicrous as heads of banks on astronomical salaries getting huge bonuses for a job well done! You are getting paid to do that anyway – top salaries for ‘top people’. We expect nothing less from you!
As much as the concept of monarchy discomforts me, I do admire the Queen. She can’t get up one morning and say, ‘Bollocks to this, I’m off to live out my days on the island of Mustique so don’t bother me anymore!’ Her commitment to her role is admirable, the like of which you seldom see elsewhere particularly from someone in their 80s who should be able to relax and enjoy their retirement. Can you imagine having a President Cameron? I’d be off to Zimbabwe to seek asylum! I sometimes shudder at what will fill the void when the Queen finally meets her maker. PM wasters may come and go but she has offered stability in her 60 years of reign.
Reblogged this on benleney.
I don’t get MBE’s or other honours. From a Christian point of view, you don’t do good work for your own personal glory but for God and the rest of the world. From a human point of view, the letters mean nothing – it’s not like Her Maj is giving you your own corner of Cornwall to govern.
me neither, rithompson… when a football team honours a particularly wonderful manager as man utd did with fergy… that’s cool. but what he’s doing with a knighthood is beyond me. it’s the ‘empire’ bit and the class stuff that i find particularly obnoxious… but then you probably gathered that.
I think the honours list is there to encourage all those in the various fields- it certainly does me.
Spirit didn’t want us to have kings and queens. But we’ve got em now so.
I am a Queen and You are a Queen or a King. You are magical in your queen/ kingdom.
Su- she’s a product of her generation. Just like we are of ours.
Ah, yes Sarah, that explains it. – except Brennan Manning can’t be that much younger
However, I do very much appreciate the Royal Family’s approach to building friendliness around the world, fully fledged, gracious, bone china peace making, – oh and well done Kate for spotting the composer who’s name I’ve already forgotton – who wrote something for Gavin’s Military Wives Chior
Pingback: Honours « Life With Da Man CD