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Pastoral Care and the Coronavirus: What Can We Do?
GUEST BLOG: How can we help each other out during this global crisis? Rosie Deedes has worked as a chaplain in many difficult contexts and shares her reflections. The coronavirus situation is cha…
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A Prayer for the Fearful
A prayer by Graham Turner for us all as we struggle to deal with the global COVID-19 pandemic. Lord of Life, today we are a fearful and anxious people. As the viral illness intru…
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Working beyond Barriers
Nicholas Henshall explores the role of cathedrals like his in helping the Church to work beyond barriers in today’s world. Image: Chelmsford Cathedral (David Iliff / CC BY-SA) …
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The Beauty of the Hebrew Scriptures
GUEST BLOG: #BookOfTheMonth author Anthony Phillips delves into the riches of the Old Testament. If I have learnt anything in my eighty-plus years, it is that God is a God of surprise. I left sch…
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March #BookOfTheMonth: God B.C.
Our March #BookOfTheMonth, God B.C., makes for perfect Lenten reading. “A classic of biblical interpretation” Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury &ldquo…
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St Cuthbert’s Last Journey
GUEST BLOG: It is gone eight o’clock on the least-light day of late December, the winter solstice. Katharine Tiernan is standing on the whinstone ridge above Holy Island harbour, waitin…
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