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Faith is often nothing more than a series of doubts vanquished by love. Michel Quoist

It has just hit me that my Sixtieth Birthday Year will soon be running out. It hasn't exactly been a great year healthwise, but I can still get a few wishes fulfilled. So first off it is to be hunting … Continue reading →

It has been entertaining me to observe the rise and fall of news stories. Yesterday morning I was listening to the Today programme and heard John Humphries pushing the Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, to the limit of his patience. The infamous … Continue reading →

I have finished The Handmaid's Tale and it is not just the new tablets causing the confusion (though I do feel a bit as if someone is hammering me over the head). The book is shocking in the most pervasive … Continue reading →

Don't read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood if you are of a nervous disposition. Not having finished it yet, I am disinclined to comment further. But watch this space.

I used to argue with o­ne of my lecturers at college who said that the o­nly thing constant about God was constant change. It seems that my life is all about change just now. I am not allowed to drive … Continue reading →

Did you know you can buy a battery-operated automatic card shuffler?

From Eddie Askew Lord my mind can’t cope/ It’s hard to see a pattern in the dark. Harder still to see an underlying purpose, when suffering throws its shadow, and hope’s eclipsed. Christian cliches bring no comfort. The candle flame … Continue reading →

Sound systems in churches have become much easier to deal with now that Maplin Electronics has shops in Scotland. It all used to be a mystery; but now it is possible to walk in off the street and buy spare … Continue reading →

It can’t be only seven weeks to Christmas!