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Myths and Legends

Christmas and New Year are often a time of recollection, reflection, and a bit of nostalgia. Family stories re-told round the dinner table, or by the fire.  Re-lived in the telling.  Stories with a meaning for those involved.  Family myths … Continue reading

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Keeping Christmas

How will you your Christmas keep? With a family of four in two rooms.  No space, no privacy, no room to breathe.  Or in a tent in the derelict doorway of the once upon a time John Lewis store. Or … Continue reading

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Building Bridges

We had a Congregational chapel in our village, but in all my 25 years living there I never saw inside it.  We were C. of E.  In my teenage years I had a Quaker girlfriend.  There was never a word … Continue reading

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Beyond Words

Words can be enlightening.  They can also limit our deeper understanding.  It’s natural for us to explain, to solve, to work things out through words.  But this keeps us in our head and in the realm of ideas and some … Continue reading

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Looking for the Good

What we focus on expands and grows and any emotion attached to it increases and intensifies.  It’s easy to overload ourselves with negative input by what we notice around us, by what we watch, what we listen to and by … Continue reading

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What Can I Do?

It’s hard to know how to respond to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war between Russia and Ukraine, the climate crisis and all the other suffering that human beings inflict on each other.  “Yes…and” is one of the golden rules of … Continue reading

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Values – What Values?

At the end of last week I was suspended from Facebook – for the second time!  I only joined so that I could watch the live-stream of the Sunday morning service.  This morning I appealed.   Having given them some details,  … Continue reading

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Work – A Divine Toad

Elon Musk has recently suggested that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will make work redundant.  That human beings will no longer have to work.  It will all be done for us by sophistically programmed machines.   Quite some time ago it was predicted … Continue reading

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I am Right and You are Wrong

I am the victim and you are the aggressor. “A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.  All of us occupied the same space, … Continue reading

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Process and Outcome

“Are we nearly there yet?”  How often has this question come from the back seat of the car.  You’ve only just got on to the motorway and the children want to know if you are nearly at your holiday destination.  … Continue reading

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