patience
An absolute
patience.
Trees stand
up to their knees in
fog. The fog
slowly flows
uphill.
White
cobwebs, th
of grief …. and getting past it
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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
In Memoriam – Colin Woodward : Dad
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Colin Campbell Woodward
10th December 1937 - 24th July 2023
Funeral Address 16th August 2023 given by James Woodward
Durham Cre
Re-reading – Transitions and the Life-course :Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’ by Amanda Grenier
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Transitions and the Lifecourse Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’
Amanda Greener
256 pages, pbk £26.99,
Patience
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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
The Shrine Church of Saint Melangell
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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
What kind of leadership ?
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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
Does Belief change in Old Age?
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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
Seeing beyond the immediate: listening and learning alongside older people
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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
Space, Colour and Form in Kettles Yard : Reading Ways of Life by Laura Freeman
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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
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
Resourcing Ministry with Older Adults : BRF and Sarum College
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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
To Rest or not to Rest : Reading Alex Sooting-Kim Pang
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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
What does it mean to Age Well : Reading Ian Knox Finishing Well
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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
The Lessons of Life ? Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
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What do you think holds us together ? What should be our attitude to these moments of living? What
Space and Time : Heschel on The Sabbath
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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
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
From the Shores of Silence – Learning from feminist voices in Practical Theology
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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