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Snobs
The church is full of snobs. I don’t know why or even how we encourage it, but we clearly do. The worst of the snobbishness presents itself in hymn choices. In the place I work as a chaplain, I am...
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Advent
I’m not sure how one should greet another in Advent. I can’t say ‘Happy Advent’ when I am simultaneously hoping for the immediate return of Jesus. I mean, that event will not necessarily be happy,...
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Chill in the north
I’ve never seen snow from the train that spans the country – from Durham to London, houses, fields and roads are covered by inches of snow. It seems ironic that this is the one news item uniting the...
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Why don’t we like children?
The news tells us today that life in the UK is not good for children. Having just returned from mainland Europe I can only agree. This isn’t a problem that can be solved by raising families out of...
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Is the Church becoming Ageist?
One of the words so dearly loved in church is ‘relevant’. We seem to think that it would be good to be relevant, and that if we can only attain that holy state, people who are not Christians will flock...
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