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Why I Like Brighton
Epiphany moments graced a full house at St. Cuthman's Retreat Centre, Sussex, UK. Afterwards I chilled out at Brighton before driving to our annual Voyagers Retreat near Stoke-on-Trent. 'Brighton?' sniffed a retired barrister. I'll tell you why I like it. First, because I can get a bed by the sea for...
Fair Trade - Fair Do
A good new year resolution is to buy more local food and more fair trade products in 2012. Yesterday a visitor told me that London would not survive more than one day if the food supply chain collapsed and supermarkets had no stocks. No wonder he is thinking of setting up a...
New Year Message
Capitalism is in crisis. The international 'Occupy' movement wants the 1 per cent who hold the levers of money and power to relate to the 99 per cent as one community. Time Magazine states that the world’s protesters pine for some third way, a new social order. UK Prime Minister...
I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas: From Whitehouse To Whitehouse.
Day 1: Black-out, starlight and a meal with Carol.
Day 2: Sister Sally cooks Boxing Day meal and an unwell neighbour joins us.
Day 3: The President of the British-Pakistani Christian Association and relatives visit this Christian island, find everything closed, and I give them a pilgrim tour.
Day 4: Sally and I...
David Cameron's Christmas Present - 'the Cowshed Revolution'
Wait for a New Year Message and launch of 'The Cowshed Revolution: a new society created by downwardly mobile Christians'.
Meanwhile I sent Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron an advance copy for Christmas. In two recent speeches he called for a social reformation and for the church to help with an...
The Oldie
The woman who writes the ‘Pearls of Wisdom’ feature for Oldie Magazine clutched a book she had bought in the Post Office when in walked 81 year old Kate Tristram. ‘That’s the author’ said the Postmaster. ‘Can I interview you?’ she asked Kate.
She seemed shocked by what Kate told her....
Danish Anamcara
Danish pastry is delicious. Danish anamcara is better. It has more substance. Anamcara is the name of The Community of Aidan in Denmark. It has a new web site. Visit www.anamcara.dk
Katrina rang me from Denmark. She is a member of Anamcara. She and her husband Henry have some beautiful land....
Santa Claus
December 6: I put Santa Claus - Saint Niklaus actually - on my window sill, with snow, crib and flashing winter lights. When this kind parish priest heard a man who'd lost his fortune was to sell his daughters into prostitution, he secretly dropped gold down the chimney. This fell...
The Lady In The Eye Clinic
Queues. Very British. I was in the eye clinic. The lady who documented people in the queues - before, during and after - never sat down, she just stood in the corridor. 'You deserve a break' I said. 'I love Christmas' she replied (perhaps she saw my cross?). 'Good gracious,...
Just A Lump Of Rock In The Ocean
I have known four Holy Island vicars. They get involved in the hassles of local institutions. We humans get possessive and resist change the world over - we think we own things.This dynamic is magnified on islands. People who want to do something get screwed up by it. So the...
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