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Adrian Cadbury and his legacy

Posted on 19 December 2024 by James Woodward
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Book tokens are always a welcome opportunity to see what has been recently published and secure an adventure of discovery! Participating in a recent Church Times debate on assisted dying offered me the chance to secure a copy of this biography of Adrian Cadbury. My connections with Adrian go deeper than my sweet tooth !  […]
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Gifts and Graces

Posted on 20 November 202428 October 2024 by James Woodward
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  I have come to admire the way different individuals function in their profes­sional roles. Yet finally I represent the role my way, in my person, in terms of my gifts and my graces.  These “gifts and graces,” as the Methodists put it, are not better or worse. They simply are different. Dif­ferent gifts, different graces; […]
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Prayer and Intercession ( Mother Mary Clare)

Posted on 27 October 2024 by James Woodward
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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 relationship with God. Our part in all prayer is to be the ‘good ground’ out of which the seed can grow and, if we will let it, be multiplied a hundredfold by our […]
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Mark Santer : Bishop, Theologian, Pastor 1936-2024

Posted on 18 August 2024 by James Woodward
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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 the last years and months, his numerous health issues were catching up with him. He died peacefully at home with all of us at his side. He bore these last difficult days […]
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Inhabiting RS Thomas on his own soil

Posted on 17 June 202417 June 2024 by James Woodward
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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.  https://rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/ The slow and wet journey north was worth every turn in the road and queue ad a number of speakers broke open the words for the gathered pilgrims. RS Thomas […]
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Nothing is Secure, Except God : visiting the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God

Posted on 28 April 2024 by James Woodward
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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. I visited first the Convent during my first year as an undergraduate at Kings College London. These months of study were both exhilarating and challenging. Sometimes I struggled […]
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Tell Me the Good Things : On Love, Death and Marriage by James Runcie

Posted on 23 July 2023 by James Woodward
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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 a rather arresting radio interview with James Runcie. There were a couple of connections that moved me into  ‘I don’t need any more books, but this one […]
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The Shaping of a Soul by Richard Harries

Posted on 14 July 2023 by James Woodward
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    The Shaping of a Soul: A life taken by surprise Richard Harries John Hunt Publishing £18.99 (9781803411620)   I have read and now write about a man and his story from a privileged position. I worked with Richard as his first domestic chaplain from 1987 to 1990 and now my life is enriched […]
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Burkeman on the lessons of Time

Posted on 20 May 2023 by James Woodward
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Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count  Vintage 2022 What is your relationship to time ? How long is that To Do list ? And what about those good intentions we start any day with? This Saturday started quite well – an early start and off to […]
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Close ( Film 2022)

Posted on 12 April 2023 by James Woodward
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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  (https://macbirmingham.co.uk/) – a place of regular visits over twenty years of living in Birmingham.Based in Canon Hill Park, Edgbaston and opposite the Warwickshire Cricket ground it was a happy […]
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Leslie Houlden 1929- 2022 : Sacerdos, amator Dei, Quaerēns

Posted on 22 December 2022 by James Woodward
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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 2022 at 12.30pm  Leslie left clear and detailed instructions for his funeral. From time to time, they were updated – always with the heading: LH Funeral – no date assigned. It was […]
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What does it mean to Journey? Reading Crossroad by Moseley

Posted on 25 June 2022 by James Woodward
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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 weekend while present  at a conference exploring the poetry of RS Thomas. This book was a perfect accompaniment in my lodgings in Aberdaron. As I looked out over to Bardsey Island […]
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Back to my Roots? The legacy of Brooke Foss Westcott

Posted on 28 December 201827 December 2018 by James Woodward
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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 son of a miner the title was arresting. Ordained in Durham after theological studies at Westcott House Cambridge there were further connections. I have a copy of his commentaries on Hebrews and St Johns Gospel and […]
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Reminiscence Work with Older Adults

Posted on 25 March 2018 by James Woodward
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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 Kingsley Publishers 2017 ISBN: 9781785922398   There are few of us in early middle age who do not know someone who is living with some of the opportunities and challenges of growing older. Sadly […]
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A crisis of Care ?

Posted on 9 January 20189 December 2017 by James Woodward
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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 its customers.  The second is a hospital.  Parking the car is nearly impossible – the long impersonal corridors where people avoid eye contact.  The noisy ward – the short temered […]
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Holiday reading (1) Gordon Brown My life, Our Times Bodley Head 2017.

Posted on 6 January 2018 by James Woodward
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            Having  successfully downsized my living and therefore ‘storage’ arrangements I  think twice about buying a book! I was, however,  immediately drawn to this political autobiography, not least because on the two occasions I met Gordon Brown I found him humane, reflective and generous. Retired politicians, we are told, are generally more attractive than […]
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Please pray for me

Posted on 10 December 20179 December 2017 by James Woodward
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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 specific difficulty or crisis – more often than not people understandably take comfort from the reality of being prayed for. Intercession, prayer that is to ask God for […]
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Longing for a deeper Church ?

Posted on 16 July 2016 by James Woodward
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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 – 161 – 8.   This is an intriguing, stimulating and rewarding book that offers a space within which Andrew Walkers rather original and distinctive voice can be heard. Some will […]
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Jim Birren

Posted on 15 February 2016 by James Woodward
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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 Center, at the University of Southern California, died at the age of 97.  His achievements were extraordinary   Foremost among these, is creation of the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC, as well as the Leonard […]
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The Look

Posted on 4 July 2015 by James Woodward
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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 becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. […]
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