Now here is a confession! Not all of the books on my shelves either at home or here in my study at Sarum College have been read from cover to cover. You might be familiar with the dilemma. You buy a book on a recommendation. You hear the author at a writers festiv
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,
Policy Press 2012, ISBN 978 1 84742 691 8.
I have been glad to revisit this book that explores the way we narrate age. I
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 Bristol 2011
I agreed to offering a session at this years Sarum Centre for Formation in Ministry on what the Bible might show
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 978-0-281-08349-7
Ian Knox is an experienced, wise and creative priest and evangelist. His love of people, life, scripture and learnin
What shall we make of a frail old age ? On watching Allelujah
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If I had taken any notice of the reviews then I should certainly not have parted with £12 for a cinema ticket to see this film. Based on the play by Alan Bennett, this slow, intentional and warm the film explores age and care and human nature in the face of pandemic, N
Still Growing : The Creative Self in Older Age
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Still Growing
The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Donald Capps
The Lutterworth press 2015, PB 208pp, 9780718893910, £16.50.
This is the most delightful of books in its thoroughness, scholarship and creativity. It has all the potential to transform the readers
Understanding the Spiritual Shape of Older Age
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The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing
Elizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2017 £19.99
With a background in nursing and specialisation in gerontological nursing much of McKinley's focus over the past years has been on age and spirituality. Her pre
Living with Dementia :People rarely remember what we said but often don’t forget how we made them feel.
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First published in the Salisbury Journal 2 February 2017
At Sarum College we are interested in engaging with and reflecting on what makes for human flourishing.
You will have a sense of what it is that helps you to live what inspires your enthusiasm for life.
Bein
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 Center, at the University of Southern California,
died at the age of 97. His achievements were extraordinary Foremost amo
The Quest for meaning in later life
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P. G. Coleman, D. Koleva and J. Bornat, eds., Ageing, Ritual and Social
Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western
Europe. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Pp. xviii,
283. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4094-5215-7.
This volume is a compell
Looking your Age??
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DO YOU LOOK YOUR AGE?
Last month my wife and I were on a Road Scholar trip in Europe and we were having dinner with a Japanese woman. We got to talking about age and she asked how old I was. "Seventy" I replied, thinking of Gloria Steinem's apt phrase, "This is how 7