I have come to admire the way different individuals function in their professional roles. Yet finally I repre
Prayer and Intercession ( Mother Mary Clare)
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These words from Mother Mary Clare SLG are worth pondering as we enter into a new season
PRAYER in its wholeness is relations
Mark Santer : Bishop, Theologian, Pastor 1936-2024
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This week, the family of Mark Santer, announced his death
Our beloved father, Mark Santer, died at home on Wednesday 14th August. Over
Inhabiting RS Thomas on his own soil
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It is a long way from Salisbury to the Llyn Peninsula. This was a pilgrimage of sorts to the RS Thomas Poetry Festival.
Nothing is Secure, Except God : visiting the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God
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I was first introduced to the Sisters of the Love of God by Geoffrey Connor, the Vocations advisor in the diocese of Durham in the late 1970s.
Tell Me the Good Things : On Love, Death and Marriage by James Runcie
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There are, I confess, on my bookshelves a number of books that have been waiting to be read for some time. I bought this book last year after
The Shaping of a Soul by Richard Harries
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The Shaping of a Soul: A life taken by surprise
Richard Harries
John Hunt Publishing £18.99
(9781803411620)
I
Burkeman on the lessons of Time
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Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count Vintage 2022
What is your relationshi
Close ( Film 2022)
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Gustav De Waele and Eden Dambrine as Rémi and Léo
On my post Easter travels I was glad to reaquaint myself with The Midland Arts Centre &
Leslie Houlden 1929- 2022 : Sacerdos, amator Dei, Quaerēns
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A Sermon delivered at the Funeral Eucharist of Leslie Houlden at the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Temple Balsall
21st December
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
Back to my Roots? The legacy of Brooke Foss Westcott
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I finished reading Isabel Hardman on turned to thoroughly researched life of Westcott. There were many resonances and connections. As the so
Reminiscence Work with Older Adults
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The Multi-Sensory Reminiscence Activity Book
52 Weekly Group Session Plans for Working with Older Adults
Sophie Jopling and Sarah Mousley
Jessica
A crisis of Care ?
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Contrast two scenes. The first is a restaurant – where the food is carefully prepared and warmly served in an atmosphere which seeks to delight
Holiday reading (1) Gordon Brown My life, Our Times Bodley Head 2017.
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Having successfully downsized my living and therefore 'storage' arrangements I think twice about buying a book! I wa
Please pray for me
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As a priest, I should not be surprised at how often sometimes perfect strangers ask me to pray for them. Sometimes it is related to a
Longing for a deeper Church ?
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Andrew Walker, Notes From A Wayward Son: A Miscellany, ed. by Andrew D. Kinsey (Cascade, 2015), 322pp. no price marked. ISBN 978 – 1– 62564 –
Jim Birren
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REMEMBERING JIM BIRREN
One of the towering figures in gerontology has died : James E. Birren, founding
Director of the Andrus Gerontology
The Look
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the look
"The World is not something to
look at, it is something to be in."
Mark Rudman
I look and look.
Looking's a way of being: one bec
What is Age?
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"Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were
interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow mor