Friday, 15 April 2022

What’s so good about this Good Friday?

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Just as grave concerns about a global pandemic, caused by a new virus for which there wasn’t initially a test or cure, begin to recede (whet...
Monday, 31 January 2022

“Blessed wonder and surprising delight…”

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Maybe it’s just me, but I assume that there is a time in all our lives when the thought strikes us that we are nearer our death than our bir...
Monday, 3 January 2022

Faith in fantasy…..

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I rather like Matthew Parris , one of the columnists for The Times. He’s a thoughtful fellow, who has the good sense to share some of my pre...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Christmas Reflections 2021 #2 Not just a baby…..

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The world still spins on its axis and there are no obvious signs of it ending any time soon. Neither of these observations means that it won...
Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Christmas Reflections 2021 #1 Grimness again……

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Reflecting on last year’s reflections seemed like a good place to start this year. One of them centred on the grimness of the original event...
Monday, 20 December 2021

Numbers game: Christianity in retreat…?

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The end of December is an interesting time of year for all sorts of reasons, some more logical than others. It marks (although somewhat arbi...
Saturday, 4 December 2021

Missed metaphor......

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Here was me thinking I would just do a quick search on the subject of metaphor and its uses (mainly because I heard Noel Gallagher talking a...