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God: Some Conversations (part 2)
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I must move constantly between not needing to know and knowing that I do not know and thus commit myself to the process of finding out. I experience faith as a gift and as a question. The very nature of the gift requires that I face the question. If it is truly a gift of
Edward The Confessor
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Edward, the penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England, was known as 'the Confessor' because of his deep piety.
Edward was the son of Ethelred II 'the Unready' and Emma, the daughter of Richard II of Normandy. The family was exiled in Normandy after the Danish invasion of 1013,
God : Some Conversations (part one)
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God is either a gift or a delusion, the source of all gifts and of the possibility that everything may be received as a gift, or the phantasy of men who prefer to imagine that they receive gifts rather than to acknowledge that they must face facts - on their own.
I believe in
Britain is unequal and deeply divided
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission is today publishing a 700 page report that shows Britain to be a deeply divided country.
The most comprehensive report on UK inequality ever published, 'How Fair is Britain?' charts the divergence of life chances from birth through to r
Awe?
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Yesterday I saw a small group of children in Chapel here in St Georges Windsor. It was amazing to see their reaction and it took me back to thenk about space, wonder and awe.
Donald Allchin eloquently evokes how spirituality might relate to a cathedral:
To speak of
Leadership as Attention?
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Perhaps it is significant that our English word for 'obedience' is derived from two Latin words -ob and audire- which mean to 'listen keenly'. Listening has three meanings:
The first is to hear; the second is like the meaning of the French 'connaitre' - to understand; and the
the face in the mirror
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we are the face in the mirror
and we are the mirror itself.
Here, now, right now, we taste
the eternal. Yes, we are pain
and yes, we are the medicine for pain.
We are sweet cold water
and the jar, from which it pours.
Rumi
Leadership
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and Listening?
Writing in the July 2001 edition of the magazine Quadrant, Eddie Gibbs, an Anglican priest, and for many years Professor of Church Growth at the USA's Fuller Theological Seminary, sums things up like this:
We now have a generation of leaders who do not know
Pickled red cabbage
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By Mrs Beeton
Preparation time: overnight
Cooking time: 10 to 30 mins Makes 1 large jar
Ingredients
•red cabbage
•salt
•water
•1.13 litre/2 pint vinegar - to each quart add 1 tbsp ginger, well bruised
•25g/1oz whole black pepper
•a little cayene, if
Francis of Assisi
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O God, you ever delight to reveal yourself
to the childlike and lowly of heart:
grant that, following the example of the blessed Francis,
we may count the wisdom of this world as foolishness
and know only Jesus Christ and him crucified,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the un
Forgiveness
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My suggestion is this: that what forgiveness looks like is an ongoing process, again and again, of learning to behave as if death were not, which will mean coming gradually to stand up against those whose being depends on death, and running the risk of being persecuted by them,
On Leadership
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For me, part of the burden, the excitement and the challenge of trying to exercise leadership in the Church, is trying to feel the rhythm or the heartbeat of the body of Christ, so that leadership that matters or is effective in the Church, has to be listening (italics mine) .
Reservoirs ?
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, and a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself communications its superabundant water. In the Church
poverty and poetry
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Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
They were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that he liked.
His self and the sun were one
And his poems, although makings of his self,
Were no less makings of the sun.
It was not important that they survive.
What mattered
When will we learn to care for our older people?
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Patients can apply for NHS funding through the continuing care system
Vulnerable elderly people are being unfairly forced to pay for health care, the new chairman of the House of Commons health committee says.
Stephen Dorrell said patients with conditions such as dementia
imperfection
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Let us return to imperfection's school.
No longer wandering after Plato's ghost,
Seeking the garden where all fruit is flawless,
We must at last renounce that ultimate blue
And take a walk in other kinds of weather.
From Adrienne Rich, Stepping backward
Vincent de Paul
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Merciful God,
whose servant Vincent de Paul,
by his ministry of preaching and pastoral care,
brought your love to the sick and the poor:
give to all your people a heart of compassion
that by word and action they may serve you
in serving others in their need;
thro
Windsor
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How time moves on..... although I am into the second cycle of my ministry here in the College of St George - I find it difficult to remember what the routines and rituals were last year mainly because it was all so new! Often friends and visitors ask how I am doing and even off
Financial crisis leaves over 200 million on less than 2 dollars a day
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As world leaders meet for the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York, 20-22 September, a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) highlights that because of the financial crisis around 120 million more people may now be living on less than U