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Category: People

Home > <a href="https://www.jameswoodward.online/category/blog/">Blog</a> > Archive by category "Category: <span>People</span>" (Page 4)

Its not what you know but who??

Posted on 25 July 2009 by James Woodward
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  When John Rae became headmaster of Westminster School in the early Seventies the IRA was regularly setting off devices around Parliament, 200 yards from the school. Neither he nor his 479 pupils seemed unduly concerned: “A housemaster tells me that a boarder returned to his house carrying a piece of exploded car,” he wrote […]
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Bede

Posted on 25 May 2009 by James Woodward
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  Today we commorate The Venerable Bede Almost everything that is known of Bede’s life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England. It was completed in about 731, and Bede implies that he was then in his fifty-ninth year, which would give a likely birth […]
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Julian of Norwich

Posted on 9 May 2009 by James Woodward
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Little is known about Julian of Norwich, a close contemporary of Chaucer’s –not even her name (“Julian” was the name of the church at which she was an anchoress). Unlike Kempe, Julian wrote her text, Revelations of Divine Love, exclusively about her vision and religious meditations,not about her life. Following her vision, which occurred during a […]
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Ashdown and his Diaries

Posted on 29 April 2009 by James Woodward
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    The Ashdown Diaries Volume One 1988-1997 (Allen Lane 2000 £20 642pages) I have been meaning to read this for some time and finally discovered a copy at the bargain price of £4 in a second hand bookshop in Oswestry covered market. Waiting can yield great results for the patient! I confess that I […]
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Thatchers Inheritance

Posted on 21 April 2009 by James Woodward
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  Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in three Acts (Allen Lane 2006) Simon Jenkins is a clever, insightful and careful writer. I read this volume after the considerable publicity following the thirtieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s historic election in 1979. It was one of those books that I bought a few years ago following reading […]
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Spring

Posted on 20 April 2009 by James Woodward
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spring fever   Today, look: another day. Waking, wide open, Afraid. Don’t dive into the library, Into yet another book! Reach for your guitar, Let love, let beauty, be what it is we do: You don’t have to fly abroad, in order to kneel And kiss the tarmac! The breeze at dawn has secrets to […]
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The Speaker

Posted on 16 April 2009 by James Woodward
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The Speaker (BBC 2 14th April 2009 8 – 9pm)   What makes for a good speech? How do those of us who are tasked to speak become better (more convincing) speakers? What is a significant speech? Young people from across the country are gathered together and offered an opportunity to speak in various places. […]
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Good Bye to all my friends in Temple Balsall

Posted on 14 April 2009 by James Woodward
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May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to […]
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Beginnings and Endings?

Posted on 7 April 2009 by James Woodward
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  What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. And every phrase And sentence that is right (where every word is at home, Taking its place to support the others, The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, An […]
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Do not forget the poor!

Posted on 4 April 2009 by James Woodward
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G20 leaders must not forget promises to the poor – Religious Leaders Communiqué   In a communiqué issued in advance of the G20 meeting in London, they call on political leaders to consider the moral issues at the root of the current financial crisis, and to pay special attention to the needs of poor, marginalised and […]
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Time Out

Posted on 22 February 2009 by James Woodward
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  I remember as a student in London buying the weekly magazine Time Out to catch up on films and see where cheap theatre tickets could be bought. Always a mine of information and very candid and illuminating reviews. I wonder of it is still in print? I am back in Temple Balsall after some […]
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Hugo Young

Posted on 3 February 2009 by James Woodward
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  Curiosity, Hugo Young argues, is the essential ingredient of the best journalism. The only way to understand any world, especially the ever complex, always churning, often deceiving world of politics, is to craft the right questions and then go in search of the answers.   It was when he moved from the Sunday Times to the […]
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How are we to understand our Life?

Posted on 23 January 2009 by James Woodward
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SO MANY DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF TIME   How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?   Adrift in such preoccupations, we seek clarification. We can […]
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Obama and the weight of expectation

Posted on 20 January 2009 by James Woodward
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          If you had to choose another job I wonder what that job would be?  Perhaps the move from being a teacher to a builder?  Out of the kitchen as a cook into a hospital as a nurse? Away from the desk to a more physical job where papers and computers […]
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Seamus Heaney

Posted on 9 January 2009 by James Woodward
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Dennis O’Driscoll   Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney   (Faber, 2008)   Seamus Heaney is regarded as possibly the finest poet of his generation.  Although I find some of his writing rather dense and impenetrable, many people have been enriched by the sheer depth and creativity of his clever verse.  While his poetry has […]
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In Love

Posted on 8 January 2009 by James Woodward
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  Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse – Nothing refuse. Leave all for love; Yet, hear me, yet… Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, […]
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Regret?

Posted on 28 November 2008 by James Woodward
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression Swami Sivananda  
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Who would be a Vicar these days??

Posted on 13 November 2008 by James Woodward
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   I had reason to write to a friend who has recently celebrated twenty years in the ministry.  It has given me the opportunity to reflect upon some of the questions and convictions that surround the nature and exercise of priesthood in today’s complex and confusing world.   It was Bob Runcie, a former Archbishop […]
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Saint or Sinner??

Posted on 11 November 2008 by James Woodward
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      During this November time we have been remembering – and as a colleague of mine said in church recently – we Christians are particularly good and skilled at remembering.  All Saints’ celebrates those men and women who have inspired us and been faithful to discipleship.  Many of us gather to remember on […]
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From Alice Walker to barack Obama

Posted on 10 November 2008 by James Woodward
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I found this very powerful and challenging and moving….. read on!!   Open Letter to Barack Obama from Alice Walker   Nov. 5, 2008 Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because […]
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