On Reading
A Life-Long Springtime: The Life and Teaching of Fr George Congreve SSJE by Luke Miller (Sacristy Press 2022)
Alfred Hope Patten
What does it mean to Journey? Reading Crossroad by Moseley
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Charles Moseley is a Cambridge scholar, teacher and English writer. I took this book with me to the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales last week
In memory of Ruth Innes
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I first came across Ruth at St George's, Windsor, when she came one year on a clergy conference. It was an intensive 10 days of learning
Finding hope in the eternal values of truth and justice
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The situation in Ukraine makes us feel so helpless. What can we do? Add this to our weariness and anxiety about the pandemic, climate change a
Sunday Afternoon Cinema – The Duke
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I wonder where you consider home to be? And if you are a long way away from that place do you ever feel homesick? That strange longi
Hearing God in Poetry by Richard Harries
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Hearing God in Poetry
Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter
Richard Harries SPCK 2022
This is the time of the year when some turn to th
Befriending the elderly stranger in us
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The Three Ages of Man or Reading a Song is a 1500-1501 is a painting by Giorgione which is presently displayed in the Galleria Palatina in
What shall I pray for ?
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Prayers for Living 500 Prayers for Public and Private Worship by Rosalind Brown (Sacristy Press 2021)
I wonder if you pray how do you go abo
Made in the image of ….?
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Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions at Chester Cathedral
The latest exhibition at Chester Cathedral due to end this month (October 20
Listening Differently ? On being agents of change by Nancy Kline
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Change where your attention is
I first encountered this book through a conversation with a colleague at Sarum College about pastoral supervision.
The price of life? Worth by Max Borenstein
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I wonder what were the things that got you through Covid and especially your lockdown evenings? I was glad of Netflix and their extraordinary ran
We See You: Slavery and Salvation by Alastair Redfern
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This is a short, readable, challenging and deeply transformative book. The author is Rt Revd Dr Alastair Redfern, who chairs the Clewer Initiativ
Terry Frost – his skill and artistic legacy
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Sir Terry Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) - playful, alive, colourful & fun
I cannot now remember when I first encounter
How to share the Story ? On reading Dear England by Stephen Cottrell
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Engaging, wise, passionate
This is an appealing and fluent book with a story and a purpose. I read it in one siting on a train from Durham to Lon
Rediscovering Barbara Pym – the transformation of the ordinary
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Most of us live ordinary lives making the best of time and circumstance. We do our best. We sometimes fail. We deal with whatever the days of wor
Naughty but never Wicked – Miriam Margolyes shares her life (in full)
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irrepressible, honest, real
I have recently invested in a Kindle as part of an aspiration to travel a bit more lightly. The conversion will take
Late Summer Theological Reading- Dominic White, Ann Loades, Douglas Dales, Tim Gibson.
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How do I Look? Theology in the Age of the Selfie Dominic White SCM 2021 £25
At the time of reading this book there is some measure of ongo
A Grounded and Hopeful celebration of what matters in Pandemic times
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I have had a busy week at Sarum College catching up with students, moderating assignments, a meeting of my body of Trustees as well as the usual
Chosen : Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism Giles Fraser Allen Lane 2021
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Some of you might be be familiar with the BBC series Who do you think you are? In the programme a number of celebrities uncover, one assumes wit