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 ! […]
Mark Santer : Bishop, Theologian, Pastor 1936-2024
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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 […]
In Praise of Quakerism in the uncertain terrain for Religion
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John Hunt Publishing 2023 Many of the readers here will have experienced Quakerism in and through their presence of meeting houses and their active engagement in communities. Quakers are people living integrity with a single minded, focus on the tradition and disciplines of the spiritual life. I lived for some time in Bournville – that […]
Saying the Unsayable
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I have been offering some reflections on the exhibition that took place in Centenary Square last week here are some image to give you a glimpse of how it all worked….
Compassion, attachments, love and connections
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Further pictures from the Saying the Unsayable exhibition. We had a very large number of images to choose from to illustrate this theme and interestingly many that focussed on not only the value of peer friendships, but family and across generational connections.
Saying the Unsayable: Being Alive, hope and death
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The images here depict those aspects of living, dying, death that would not ordinarily be available for us to capture in our everyday lives here in the West Midlands. This first image has no text but allows you to imagine what happened before the bodies reached this place and what might happen next […]
Saying the Unsayable
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Over the next few days I want to share with you some reflections and pictures from an exhibition that will run in Centenary Square Birmingham from the 2nd through to the 4th of July 2009. Here is some background: How the exhibition came about: The Images project In this project we have used intentionally 2 […]
Selfridges – Birmingham
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My parents arrives this weekend to say good bye to good old Brum and especially dear old Temple Balsall. I decided to park their bag safely in the car and go for a wander. My attempt to buy a copy of Pesvner failed and I couldnt spot anything else interesting on the New shlves of […]
The Black Country
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I have lived in the Midlands as long as I have lived anywhere – and the roads, its districts and scenery are like familiar friends. I hardly need a map – and can sometimes even anticipate possible hold ups on the ever conjested roads. It seems strange to feel that I shall soon be leaving […]
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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Many of my friends are quite prejudiced about Birmingham as a place to work and live. Well, of course, living on the edge of Solihull as I do many of my neighbours and parishioners have little to do with the city of Birmingham! Indeed, you could argue that places like Solihull, and, to a lesser […]