2021-04-11 19:01
Gardeners’ World was delayed this week. Its Friday evening slot was filled by one of the programmes on the Duke of Edinburgh and Monty Don found himself talking to viewers last night i… Read More
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2021-04-10 14:07
“Thomas said to him ‘My Lord and my God’.” John 20:28
It is evening on the first day of the week and the disciples are locked in a room together. They are afraid and… Read More
2021-04-09 19:20
The lane adjoining the house is more a track than a lane. Unsurfaced, it becomes rutted mud in winter weather. Decades of holes being filled with gravel or hard core have not brought m… Read More
2021-04-08 19:41
Sat with my mother, we recalled my grandmother’s assertions of authority over her household, especially her presumption to tell my grandfather what he should do.
“Alec, would you… Read More
2021-04-07 19:53
Sometimes, it is a relief not to be a clergyman, not to have to say, for the sake of politeness, what one knows to be untrue.
Anthony Trollope captured a sense of how many clergy must feel… Read More
2021-04-06 18:16
By today, there would have been nothing left of the Easter egg. There was only one egg each and even the best intentions could not make it stretch it beyond two days. It would be a year befo… Read More
2021-04-05 20:14
Perhaps dissecting the lyrics of songs is unwise. Perhaps there is a danger of reading into a song meanings that were not intended. Perhaps there is a danger of overthinking words that were… Read More
2021-04-04 19:27
I think it was Michael Ramsey, who was Archbishop of Canterbury when that title meant something, who talked about his hopes for eternity and said that he was glad to read in the Bible that t… Read More
2021-04-03 17:53
“So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.” Mark 16:8
With those words, the Gospe… Read More
2021-04-02 19:03
There can be no worse moment in human experience than the death of one’s daughter or son. There are no words that can possibly be adequate to articulate the pain.
The Good Friday story… Read More
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