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Success 1

Summer is here! Well, the days are long, the sun is shining most of the time, and my tomatoes are beginning to fruit. I’m very pleased with my veg and I enter it in our village show. I’ve even won prizes. Feeling successful is an uplifting experience. Have a quick thought. When did you last…

Freedom, what freedom?

When we think about slavery we tend to think of the relatively recent past and the dilemmas thrown up by wealth derived from slavery, or we think about modern slavery. All this is about abuse and the curtailment of the lifestyle of one person or group by another person or group. Yes, that is simplistic…

The Missing Piece

Having just finished a knitting contract that had consumed most evenings for the best part of the last four months, I rewarded myself with a new jigsaw.  Forty two different teapots segmented into 1000 pieces, with little written captions – my favourite sort of challenge. The pieces were uniquely cut into odd and original shapes.…

Worry!

The Thought for the Day is from Matthew 6 v 34.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own There was a story about a paratrooper in the US Army who had made more than 50 successful jumps without a serious injury. But the…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 10th July 2022

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                                    Year C             10th July 2022 Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy. 30 v9-14; Psalm 25 v1-10; Colossians v1-14; Luke 10 v25-37 Obey the Lord’s commands! In the gospel reading today, Luke tells us of an encounter between an ‘expert in the Law of Moses’ and Jesus. The ‘expert’ asked Jesus a question…

Faith in the Age of Reason

Faith in the Age of Reason  by Jonathan HillLion, 2004  208 pages  £8.99 ISBN 0 745 951 309 Setting the scene first in the Middle Ages, Jonathan Hill then embarks on a sweeping, historical  survey of the impact of the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, on the Christian faith. The movement of ideas is traced…