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One of my WhatsApp chats this week: ‘Do you feel like you’re going round and round in circles?’ ‘It’s as if I’m permanently forgetting something.’ Can you relate? Half of the adult population is on the front line, fighting the virus, half at home, going round and round in circles. All of us could have added […]
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My daughter lay next to me in bed this morning and told me something a girl in her class had said to another classmate the day before. It was this: “Why are Christians so boring – Halloween is the best thing ever!” Something came to me as my daughter quoted that question, which seemed as
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I’m not a gardener, and, whilst I still have an over-enthusiastic interest in my childhood crush, The Really Wild Show‘s Chris Packham (please YouTube if you don’t know what I’m talking about), I’m not a fanatical nature-lover either. However, a little encounter with a lot of caterpillars has had a real impact on me this
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‘I’m a professional cynic, but my heart’s not in it’*. This well-known lyric from my Britpop days started going round in my head today. I think something in my memory bank was triggered when I was contemplating New Year’s Resolutions. I’m the one who says I’m not making any. I get tired of the same
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I’ve been exploring the whole idea of ‘mindfulness’ in more depth recently. There have been two books that have helped me with this, Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality by Tim Stead, who is an Anglican priest and Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Williams and Penman. This last one is described as a “life changing
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