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Do Differently

Sometimes a seemingly innocent telephone call can set a massive challenge for you.  One such call landed in my lap on the last Saturday in August, the challenge was that we are taking responsibility for a further four Churches which we are inheriting from a neighbouring Circuit and the plan was to hold a special…

The power of personal testimony

Daniel was the youngest of three children and the shortest at six feet one inch. He came from a baker’s family and, leaving school at 15, joined the family firm selling bread and cakes. He had an inexhaustible love of painting which would eventually lead him into serious trouble. He’d stop and paint or sketch…

Haunted by Christ – Book Review

Haunted by Christ : modern writers and the struggle for faith by Richard Harries. SPCK, 2019£9.99 228 pages ISBN 978 0 281 079 346 also available as an ebook The former Bishop of Oxford has written here about 20 modern writers, mostly British, in 15chapters. The approach, in particular, is to examine what part Christian…

A Good Friend

A good friend is a special gift, given to us along the chequered path of life to help us and lift our spirits in times of trouble, and to share  happy experiences that become part of a shared history. I have such a friend in Angela, who I  met in my first week at university in…

Honeybee

The honeybee has one of the most highly developed social structures in the animal kingdom.At the heart of the hive, which may house as many as 80,000 bees, is the queen. Without her the colony has no future. But the 80,000 don’t just sit around watching their queen. Each bee has a specialized duty to…