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Common Decency
In ‘Dad’s War’… In 1943 Ian Reid was wounded and captured in North Africa and taken to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. He escaped and survived… Following his father’s footsteps nearly sixty years later, his son Howard meets a family in an isolated Italian farm that had sheltered and looked after his father: ‘Pompilio… considered it…
Seeing Beyond Appearances
This morning, I was reading… Saul has been a disappointing king of Israel. The prophet Samuel, tasked with finding the next king, goes to Jesse’s house. Jesse has eight sons. The eldest, Eliab, is a good-looking young man. Samuel’s God says to him: ‘The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People…
Interrupted by Silence
…Reading Howard Reid’s ‘Dad’s War’. In 1943 Ian Reid was wounded and captured in North Africa and taken to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. He escaped and survived… Nearly sixty years later his son Howard followed his father’s footsteps across Italy… Howard’s writing from a farm in Tuscany, ‘A wonderful calm place’. I read: ‘The raucous…
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