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Author: James Woodward

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Patience

Posted on 25 August 2023 by James Woodward
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  patience   An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, th
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of grief …. and getting past it

Posted on 23 August 2023 by James Woodward
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Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver Chunky and noisy, but with stars in their black feathers, they spring from the telephone wire
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In Memoriam – Colin Woodward : Dad

Posted on 19 August 2023 by James Woodward
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Colin Campbell Woodward  10th December 1937 - 24th July 2023 Funeral Address 16th August 2023  given by James Woodward Durham Cre
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Re-reading – Transitions and the Life-course :Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’ by Amanda Grenier

Posted on 15 August 202310 August 2023 by James Woodward
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Transitions and the Lifecourse Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’ Amanda Greener  256 pages, pbk £26.99,  
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Patience

Posted on 14 August 202313 August 2023 by James Woodward
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An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where dee
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The Shrine Church of Saint Melangell

Posted on 13 August 2023 by James Woodward
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Some places are etched into our lives in a way that draws us back. The Pennant Melangell valley is one of those spaces that has drawn me bac
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What kind of leadership ?

Posted on 10 August 20236 August 2023 by James Woodward
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    In the unchartered waters in which the Church finds itself a key responsibility of any leader is to be one who questions; a
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Does Belief change in Old Age?

Posted on 8 August 2023 by James Woodward
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On re-reading  - Belief and Ageing :Spiritual pathways in later life Peter G. Coleman (Editor) Paperback, 192 pages Policy Press Bris
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Seeing beyond the immediate: listening and learning alongside older people

Posted on 6 August 2023 by James Woodward
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From 1998 through to 2009, I had the privilege of working with many hundreds of older people in an Almshouse charity. We lived t
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Space, Colour and Form in Kettles Yard : Reading Ways of Life by Laura Freeman

Posted on 30 July 2023 by James Woodward
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This book was a present from a friend who had seen that I had visited Kettles Yard some few months ago. I have been hanging onto to it so th
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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
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Reading Scripture : On seeing and not seeing ?

Posted on 15 July 2023 by James Woodward
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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
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Resourcing Ministry with Older Adults : BRF and Sarum College

Posted on 9 July 2023 by James Woodward
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If I have time on a Sunday morning it is (usually) good to catch up with the religious news of the week with the Sunday Programme. This was fo
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To Rest or not to Rest : Reading Alex Sooting-Kim Pang

Posted on 9 July 20239 July 2023 by James Woodward
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I was introduced to the book by Gillian Strain ( do take a look at her work  www.gohealth.co.uk)  and so ( albeit) reluctantly p
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What does it mean to Age Well : Reading Ian Knox Finishing Well

Posted on 20 June 2023 by James Woodward
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  Ian S. Knox Finishing Well: A God’s-Eye View of Ageing London: SPCK, 2020. Pp. xiv, 283. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 978-0-281-08349
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The Lessons of Life ? Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Posted on 1 June 2023 by James Woodward
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    What do you think holds us together ? What should be our attitude to these moments of living? What
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Space and Time : Heschel on The Sabbath

Posted on 28 May 202321 May 2023 by James Woodward
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Many books that we buy or borrow age. They have a shelf life. I have aways been interested in other peoples shelves - how they organise thei
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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 relationshi
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From the Shores of Silence – Learning from feminist voices in Practical Theology

Posted on 17 April 202313 April 2023 by James Woodward
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From the Shores of Silence Conversations in Feminist Practical Theology Edited by Ashley Cocksworth, Rachel Starr and Stephen Burns with N
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  • Patience 25 August 2023
  • of grief …. and getting past it 23 August 2023
  • In Memoriam – Colin Woodward : Dad 19 August 2023
  • Re-reading – Transitions and the Life-course :Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’ by Amanda Grenier 15 August 2023
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