Pastor's pen for 8th November 2020 - The art of not knowing what to do...
I get discouraged with the tone of so many polarized debates online. Virtually every political, environmental, moral, religious,...
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Oct 27, 20203 min read
Bandwagons - Pastor's pen for 1 Nov 2020
As a young man I learned a valuable lesson about which wagons to get on board. For the only time in my life I had gone lame with a really...
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Oct 20, 20202 min read
'for the rest of us'.....Pastor's pen for 25th October 2020
I found this gem of a book in a charity shop in Cambridge for a couple of bucks the other day; Evangelism for the Rest of Us: Sharing...
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Oct 13, 20202 min read
Pastors pen 17th October 2020: Politics and religion around the dinner table...
Today (Tuesday) I rang my Dad on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We'll be doing lunch on Thursday in Cambridge. I clearly remember his...
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Oct 5, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen for 11th October 2020 - The Interior Life
2020 seems to be the year we cancel events in a much more relaxed manner without the customary hand-wringing and false guilt of previous...
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Sep 30, 20202 min read
Steps to Compassion - Pastor's Pen for 4th October
It troubled me to hear on the lunchtime radio news on Wednesday about the demise of free speech in India. India, a nation born of protest...
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Sep 23, 20202 min read
Way-markers: Pastor's pen for 27th September 2020
'The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them...
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Sep 16, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 20th Sept 2020 - Limbo
If we set aside any reference to Caribbean dance moves or Roman Catholic theology, the word Limbo has come to us from Middle English and...
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Sep 8, 20203 min read
Pastor's pen for 13th Sept - with sober judgement
'For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think...
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Sep 2, 20203 min read
Pastor's pen for 6th September 2020 - Father's Day
These are interesting times in which to be both a father and a pastor. One is supposed to have firm opinions about stuff in both roles,...
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Aug 25, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen for 30th August 2020 - Prophecy
Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Speak, Lord, in stillness or storm, in circumstance or sign, in scripture or word, in conscience or...
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Aug 17, 20202 min read
Fake news and pointless power games - Pastor's pen for 23rd August
Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf wrote this yesterday: We are drowning in fake news and often complain about it. But it’s ubiquitous...
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Aug 12, 20202 min read
Pastor's Pen 16th August 2020 - A touch of Déjà vu
I write this to you having just had a zoom meeting with Ian, our proposed guest speaker / film introducer for Sunday. His business in...
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Aug 7, 20202 min read
A stitch in time saves nine... Pastor's pen for 9th August 2020
"The 'stitch in time' is simply the prompt sewing up of a small hole or tear in a piece of material, so saving the need for more...
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Jul 27, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen for Sunday 2nd August - Progress at hyper-speed...
Photo by Holger Link on Unsplash I read with some dismay of President Putin boasting about his new hyper-sonic Avangard glide vehicle,...
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Jul 23, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 26th July 2020 - Retail Therapy?
I found an anthology in the Salvation Army charity shop today, and here is one of the poemsit contained, something suitable for us as we...
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Jul 16, 20202 min read
Pastor's Pen 19th July 2020 - Music to accompany the trimming of cabbages...
In 1982, when I was fifteen, my mother landed me the job of after-school produce assistant at Foodtown, Howick. Because she was a...
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Jul 8, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 12th July 2020 - Looking back, looking forward...
The news media advises of the passing of Garth Gilmour, prolific journalist and author, on June 25th, aged 94. Garth caught the jogging...
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Jun 30, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 5th July 2020 - Imagine
Henry Ward Beecher, 19th Century American preacher and journalist said; "The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be...
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Jun 25, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 28th June 2020 - Innovate
Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash Clearly, in a global sense, we are far from being 'Post-Covid.' The desire to open borders more...
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