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    • Spirituality workbook
    • The Creation of Adam
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    • You lie there … – poem
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Category: Life and faith

17/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff

As indifferent as the rain – poem

This Island has no interest in meIt just lets me be I generally need more attention thoughso I have been treating it […]

17/04/202012/05/2021Bible and biblical, Life and faith

Send in the spies

Sermon at service for licensing of lay ministriesLeicester Cathedral ReadingsNumbers 13: 1-2, 27-33Ephesians 4: 1-6Luke 10: 17-20 If those bible readings were […]

17/04/202024/08/2021Life and faith, Talks and sermons

Living in remembrance

A Remembrance Day sermon I was standing at the War Memorial on Sunday as many of you were. I spoke the words […]

17/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Talks and sermons

The hospitable God

An extract from a piece written for Celebrating Community (ed Emma Ineson and Chris Edmondson, pub DLT) – a book commissioned by […]

17/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff

Tinnitus and the sound of God

‘Let anyone who has an ear to hear, listen …..’ Rev 3.13 Along with many in our society I am hearing impaired. […]

17/04/202012/05/2021Bible and biblical, Life and faith, Talks and sermons

Birth or burglary

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, […]

17/04/202012/05/2021Bible and biblical, Life and faith, Talks and sermons

A squirrel named desire

I am sitting in remote cabin where I have gone for a week of prayer and writing. A squirrel has befriended me in […]

13/04/202026/03/2022Life and faith

Seeking the road much travelled

Just around the corner from where I used to live in Littleover,  Derby, the road turns sharply, sloping steeply into a brief, […]

04/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff

Running in the dark

Awake very early without reason – and none is needed. So here I am, well before the dawn, jogging on the towpath […]

03/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff

40 years on …

Forty years ago on, on 30th September 1979 ….  I was ordained at St Paul’s Cathedral and began a curacy at Holy […]

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