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I hope you can count as prayer that which you have already been doing. Because there is just more holiness around us than we have been led to believe.

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Sacred Space

When I was small, I was told that God could see me all the time. At five, you believe most things grown-ups tell you, and I saw no reason...

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Nov 11, 20214 min read

Just as I am

Now I may have mentioned once or twice that the church I grew up in was a little, shall we say, less than liberal. And I don’t want to go...

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Nov 4, 20214 min read

God hates a straitjacket

I used to feel that being a Christian was exhausting. It was just plain hard work. I grew up singing nifty little choruses such as, ‘Read...

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Oct 28, 20214 min read

Today's Headline! New Novice Finds Words!

So, there I am, standing up in front of a congregation of supporters, proclaiming my intention to dedicate myself to the service of Our...

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Oct 21, 20214 min read

The doubting novice

The week before I became a novice, I felt empty. I felt low, ungracious, raw and angry. The week when I should have been full of life and...

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Oct 14, 20213 min read

Are you a worrier?

The gospel reading at church last Sunday was that passage from Matthew about not worrying. You know, the one which says we are not to...

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Sep 30, 20213 min read

A Simple Life

I sometimes feel, living in our little outcrop of rock in the middle of the North Sea that other countries have so much more nature than...

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Sep 23, 20214 min read

My three most popular posts!

I can't believe it, but backstreetpilgrim has been online now for just over a year now, and I have published fifty blogposts. Fifty! When...

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Sep 16, 20211 min read

Holy Ground

Two weeks before we were due to lead our first ever writing retreat, we got ill. It started first as one of those tickly throats – you...

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Sep 9, 20213 min read

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Sacred Space

Just as I am

God hates a straitjacket

Today's Headline! New Novice Finds Words!

The doubting novice

Are you a worrier?

A Simple Life

My three most popular posts!

Holy Ground

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