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Home > Archive by category "Category: <span>Blog</span>" (Page 6)

What shall I pray for ?

Posted on 3 December 20213 December 2021 by James Woodward
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I wonder if you pray how do you go about this activity either for public worship or private devotion? In the middle of a recent conversation, I was invited by another person to pray with them. This often happens – I am a priest ! I willingly agreed but in the moment of pause wondered […]
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Made in the image of ….?

Posted on 24 October 202124 October 2021 by James Woodward
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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 2021) is a diverse, innovative and challenging invitation to the ways in which we represent Christ. In this black history month were taken into a deeper intentional examination of our limitations and prejudices as […]
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Listening Differently ? On being agents of change by Nancy Kline

Posted on 22 October 202120 October 2021 by James Woodward
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I first encountered this book through a conversation with a colleague at Sarum College about pastoral supervision.I was aware of Nancy Kline and her transformative Book Time to Think. My first encounter with her thinking was through Christopher Spence with whom she produced A Hundred Principles of Love. Both Christopher and Andrew Henderson profoundly shaped […]
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The price of life? Worth by Max Borenstein

Posted on 18 October 202118 October 2021 by James Woodward
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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 range of (possibly eccentric) choices that seek to influence my viewing ! When this film was suggested I wasn’t immediately clear what it was about but complied and was not disappointed […]
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We See You: Slavery and Salvation by Alastair Redfern

Posted on 14 October 202114 October 2021 by James Woodward
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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 Initiative, and the Sarum College Trustees, and is a theological educator of significant skill and generativity. Organised into four parts, the book explores the theme of slavery and salvation within our Scriptural and […]
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Terry Frost – his skill and artistic legacy

Posted on 10 October 202119 October 2021 by James Woodward
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I cannot now remember when I first encountered a piece of art by Frost. I do remember the vibrancy of the colour and the freedom of the form. Here – I sensed – was energy and life. His pictures of the sea and boats inspired by Cornwall remain iconic images of British modern art. This […]
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How to share the Story ? On reading Dear England by Stephen Cottrell

Posted on 3 October 2021 by James Woodward
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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 London and as I passed through York (just under half way through the book) I felt a deep sense of gratitude for the 98th Archbishop of York and this book. […]
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Rediscovering Barbara Pym – the transformation of the ordinary

Posted on 28 September 202124 September 2021 by James Woodward
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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 work bring. We dream. We hope. We cry. We wonder about roads not taken. We (mostly) do our best. We look forward to holidays and try to keep in […]
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Naughty but never Wicked – Miriam Margolyes shares her life (in full)

Posted on 25 September 202127 September 2021 by James Woodward
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I have recently invested in a Kindle as part of an aspiration to travel a bit more lightly. The conversion will take some time but here is the first marker – this memoir is the first that I have read on the ‘neat’ and ‘light’ tablet. A great start helped by an amazing story vividly […]
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Late Summer Theological Reading- Dominic White, Ann Loades, Douglas Dales, Tim Gibson.

Posted on 23 September 202123 September 2021 by James Woodward
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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 ongoing uncertainty about Covid and how far it will continue to impact on daily living as the summer draws to a close and autumn brings its colours and […]
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A Grounded and Hopeful celebration of what matters in Pandemic times

Posted on 25 June 202125 June 2021 by James Woodward
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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 range of unpredictable listening, mediating and resolving. Not all questions or difficulties move too quickly into the resolving zone ! I read for a small part of the […]
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Chosen : Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism Giles Fraser Allen Lane 2021

Posted on 2 June 202131 May 2021 by James Woodward
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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 with the BBC researchers assistance, a number of lost connections and unfamiliar parts of their histories. The thread running through the programme is the persons history revealed in […]
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In praise of Evensong

Posted on 23 May 202123 May 2021 by James Woodward
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This is an illuminating, thoughtful and carefully researched book that holds history, theology, spirituality and mission in skilful synergy ! Its focus is Choral Evensong – one of our national treasures – and these ten chapters celebrate its place in our Anglican ecology. It combines scholarship with nourishing insight. Although an easy read and short […]
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Outcome orientated chaplaincy – perceptive, intentional and effective caring

Posted on 17 May 202117 May 2021 by James Woodward
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by Brent Peery, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021, 121 pp., £18.99 (PBK), ISBN 9781785926822 This is a well-researched, grounded, and passionate text that makes a persuasive case for Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy (OOC). This process embraces a methodology of care that articulates the difference that a chaplain can make to patients, their families and the health […]
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What shapes Faith ?

Posted on 10 May 202110 May 2021 by James Woodward
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This is a gentle, modest and humane book by one of the leading theologians in the UK today. It absorbed a Sunday and stimulated, encouraged and challenged. The flow of the book is hugely helped by the careful fluency of the text and its skilled organisation of themes, ideas and influences. In particular the memoir […]
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Send my Roots Rain : A Poetry Retreat

Posted on 9 May 20219 May 2021 by James Woodward
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Sarum College seeks to offer space and learning to nourish the human spirit. As we find our way out of lockdown we shall need time, refreshment, space and (perhaps) words to help us fathom the ambiguities and paradoxes of these days. We are glad to sponsor this event with a wonderful group of creative reflectors […]
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A Writers Life ?

Posted on 1 May 202130 April 2021 by James Woodward
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Bird by Bird : Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Google informs me that around 4,500 books are published each day across the world. This is daunting, by any account, for both reader and writer! How do we make what we write count, be read and make any kind of difference? For those […]
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Theology for Pandemic Times

Posted on 9 April 20217 April 2021 by James Woodward
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Honest Sadness Lament in a Pandemic Age John Holdsworth Sacristy Press 2021 Many of my friends have commented on their weariness with these weeks of lockdown. Government heralds progress with statistics about vaccinations delivered and the reducing infection numbers – and all that is all good – but these months have taken their toll. Uncertainty, […]
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Understanding how decisions are Made?

Posted on 7 April 20217 April 2021 by James Woodward
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What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain, by Suzanne Heywood (Collins 2021) In these days of zoom TV interviews it is not unusual to see the learned and powerful sitting in front of (usually) tidy rows of books. It is impossible to not to notice what these shelves hold and […]
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Practices for the Soul : Finding Meaning in our strange new World ?

Posted on 6 April 20215 April 2021 by James Woodward
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The Power of Ritual : Turning Everyday Activities Into Soulful Practices Casper Ter Kuile William Collins 2020 I am indebted to my friend Jane Shaw for pointing me in the direction of this rather stimulating and wonderful book. It came out of a conversation about what learning might look ( and feel ) like at […]
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