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It's still Easter

Easter was over a week ago, but it’s still Easter. Easter in the church lasts for fifty days until May 28th this year when we celebrate...

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Apr 17, 20233 min read

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Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson...

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Nov 19, 20204 min read

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Making A Choice?

I was reading Day 3 of the Principles the other day, and my hackles immediately rose. It says that the object of the Society of St...

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Nov 5, 20204 min read

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Being Known

To be known is a bit like coming home. To feel that someone else knows all your inconsistencies, your quirks, your foibles, your flashes...

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Oct 30, 20204 min read

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Room at the table

I have to hold up my hands and admit that sometimes in my life, I haven’t been very good at including others. Not others who aren’t like...

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Oct 15, 20205 min read

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How can I be humble?

"Oh, no! I'm a very umble person. I am well aware that I am the umblest person going…, "let the other be where he may. My mother is...

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Sep 24, 20204 min read

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Faith in a matchbox

We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it...

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Sep 17, 20206 min read

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Joy. Do I know her?

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy Martin Buber Recently I saw a cartoon depicting God as a smiley Labrador seated on an...

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Sep 4, 20205 min read

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It's how you read it

'Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.' Rumi Reading the Bible has always felt to me like having to appease some...

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Aug 24, 20203 min read

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Lockdown Communion?

Yesterday was Sunday in lockdown. Three months ago, I wouldn’t even have known what that meant. I would have assumed you were talking...

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Aug 12, 20204 min read

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It's still Easter

Hope

Making A Choice?

Being Known

Room at the table

How can I be humble?

Faith in a matchbox

Joy. Do I know her?

It's how you read it

Lockdown Communion?

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