Blogs
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The season of Lent – where do we go when there is nowhere to go?
Who or what sustains you when all else seems to fail? What holds you up when you feel so very heart-and-body tired that your very skeleton seems unable…
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‘To see ourselves as others see us’ – What Robbie Burns and The Traitors might teach us.
That well-known phrase, ‘to see ourselves as others see us’ was originally a line from the Scottish poet Robbie Burns’ famous poem The Louse. The poet had observed…
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A thrill of hope; the weary world rejoices.
As we enter this new year, many of us will have been thinking about making small or even big changes in our lives; considering what we might do…
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Putting Christ back into Christmas, or just trolling?
Who knew that I would spend the early days of my retired life bickering with far right Christian nationalists on Twitter? I know the site has been renamed…
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A Biblical view of money and wealth
It was Shakespeare’s Hamlet who, in a fit of angst about whether or not to kill his father’s murderer, said: ‘there is nothing either good or bad but…
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Letting the past speak for itself – a deeper remembering.
My cat died last Sunday; Tommy was very, very old. He was deaf, arthritic, losing weight and struggling to make it to the cat tray. He had a…
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