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GOD OR THE BOOK?
Rainbow – Oxbridge Biotech I’VE SQUARED UP TO A BIT OF A CRISIS about words in recent months. Does humankind sometimes (too often?) mistake humanly shaped words and phrases for GOD? Does the Bible...
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WORDS AND IMAGINATION’S ART
CALLIGRAPHIC ARTIST Stephen Raw is undoubtedly one of my favourite people. Visitors to his Exhibition at Bramhall Parish Centre today spoke one after another of his smile and his warmth, and of...
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PSALM 85.8ff
I’VE ONLY RECENTLY come across Nan C Merrill’s very personal translations of the Psalms. I wouldn’t be without them now and am very thankful for part of today’s (Eucharistic Lectionary appointed)...
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LITTLENESS
LITTLENESS. That’s how Jesus of Nazareth entered this world. What’s in the Word of littleness that ALL humankind could learn from? What kind of Word to the world comes from little mouths that haven’t...
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HORIZONS
WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST about your holidays abroad? – I asked one of my oldest friends last Christmas – who loved France as I do, and who had more recently developed a real taste for Florida. “Simple”,...
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SCATTERING DARKNESSES
I LOVE TO PRAY an advent blessing … Christ the Sun of Righteousness shine upon you and scatter the darknesses from before your paths … and I also love Mary Oliver’s poetry, that knows the Sun so very...
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CONSIDER
FOR YEARS I’VE RETURNED, at some time in the course of cold and windy Advent evenings, to the same poem. I’m not usually expecting the remembrance. It’s something that just turns up, sometime, every...
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Just short of 500 people warmed the place up this evening for a sparkling Christingle service. Many thanks for financial support given for the work of the Children’s Society.
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IN THE ETERNITIES
COLD AND WET AND WINDY draws 2013 to its close up here in Cumbria. Late afternoon blue sky brings Alice Meynell to mind as I ponder upon the possibilities for a deeper unity in the heart of humanity...
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GOOD MORNING 2014
2014 WHAT A JOY, IN THIS MY 1000th POST to this blog, to wish you, dear reader, a very Happy and Blessed New Year
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COLOUR AND THE ABSTRACT
I’M NUTS ABOUT COLOUR and the abstract, even as I’m dotty, too, about poetry and the precise. Both, in quite different ways, leave plenty of room for liberality, for openness to life’s gifts in...
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OVER ALL
THE LOST AND THE FOUND – this is the stuff of the stories we’ve heard and we’ve lived from our earliest infancy. And all that we’ve “lost” terrifies and sickens us. And we somehow forget all the...
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OLD ASSUMPTIONS YIELD
THE EPIPHANY OF CHRIST (6th January) – or, magnificently, as the Book of Common Prayer has it, “The Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles” – represents one of those glorious “Eureka!” moments in the...
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ACCIDENT-PRONE
IT WASN’T JUST Time magazine that named Papa Francesco “Man of the Year”. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, did too. And I was so deeply touched by the sight of thirty-five thousand people...
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TOXIC BRAND?
IF I MAKE IT TO “NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE” I shall thank God for an extraordinary miracle of Grace. For months I’ve sought to continue the “conversation” I’ve so valued through this blog – and found that...
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A EUCHARISTIC PEOPLE
please click for pdf of our Lent, Holy Week & Easter programme for 2014 A THANKFUL SAINT PAUL WROTE “as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet...
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IN AN IDEAL WORLD
image/globalchildren’sartprogramme GRATEFUL THANKS to Thomas who – in his comment on Toxic Brand? - spelled out a vision for the Church of England “in an ideal world”. I commend it warmly and gladly:...
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NO GOOD NEWS …
An Act of Love – Kickstarter Trailer from Scott Sheppard on Vimeo. … IF NOT GOOD NEWS FOR ALL. Offer thanksgiving, offer thanksgiving, offer thanksgiving to God, and with one another, for any and all...
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