In this week’s blog post I want to engage in another ‘commercial’ and publicise a ….page booklet I have just
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Happy Ever After?
In this week’s blog post I want to engage in a ‘commercial’ with a view to publicising a 48 page
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I come from a tradition where personal prayer tends always to be spontaneous and extempore. As a child, apart from
Continue readingBooks for Today – January 2018
My book of the month: Praying Psalms: A Personal Journey through the Psalter (Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Or., 2018. 155pp:
Continue readingThe flight into Egypt
The flight of Joseph and Mary together with the baby Jesus is well and truly celebrated in the Coptic Church
Continue readingJesus came to a world of pain and sorrow: a meditation for Holy Innocents Day
In the church calendar December 28 is the Day of the Holy Innocents – the day when children were massacred
Continue readingThe shepherds – a Christmas Day sermon
As turkey and Christmas pudding belong together, so too do the shepherds and the baby Jesus. Christmas without “shepherds abiding
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I love Christmas – and all the Christmas services. Yet in the memory all too often one special service merges
Continue readingGod chooses the nobodies of this world
Most mothers are excited when they know a baby is on the way. Mary wouldn’t have been human if she
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“Not all readers are leaders”, said Harry Truman, a former US American President, “but all leaders are readers”. What is
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