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There Are More Questions Than Answers
Last week I was talking to my friend Norman whom I’ve known for many years. Norman has a strong Christian faith and clear views and opinions. We were chatting about families, mutual friends, church, God. Looking back over some difficult times he’s been through he said that there’s a lot he doesn’t understand. ‘There are…
It’s All About the Hat
Yesterday morning we visited a garden centre. Predictably there were Halloween pumpkins on display – together with spiders, bats, skeletons… and witches’ hats. There was also a Christmas display – with Christmas carols playing! There were lights, nutcracker soldiers, sparkly trees, prancing reindeer… and Father Christmas hats. Later we visited Titchwell Nature Reserve. Folks were…
Persons and Things
Malcolm Guite writes that, central to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s moral thinking, was ‘what he called the sacred distinction between a person and a thing.’ He quotes an 1811 Coleridge essay: ‘The Contra-distinction of PERSON and THING being the Condition and Ground of all Morality… A slave is a person perverted into a thing: Slavery, therefore,…
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