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From Survival to Celebration
Yesterday… Reading… Captain Howard Reid, betrayed and recaptured by the Germans in Italy, in 1943, played ‘Poor Tom’s a-cold’… I didn’t recognise the phrase… Mr Google says it’s Shakespeare – King Lear. …Edgar, Gloucester’s son and heir, is cast out from his family by his half-brother Edmund’s scheming. He disguises himself as ‘Poor Tom’, a…
Clear Aims
On Saturday, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Guli Francis-Dehqani, spoke of the conflict in her native Iran with personal understanding, some anger, heart-felt compassion for the suffering… She challenged the lack of clarity regarding the aims of the war: ‘Without clear aims it’s impossible to properly assess whether the cause of this war is just, whether…
Thy Word
The Bible has always been a part of my life. From an early age I used ‘Scripture Union Bible Readings’ – a few verses to be read each day. On all of their literature was, ‘Open thou mine eyes that I might behold wondrous things out of thy law’ Psalm 119:18. I learnt that Psalm…
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