“Where are the Christian people today who see the status quo, who do not like what they see (because there are things in it which are unacceptable to God), who, therefore, refuse to come to terms with it, who dream dreams of an alternative society which would be more acceptable to God and who determine…
It was fun having a party on Saturday night. We didn’t really know who’d show up, but people did and it was great to have a full house again. It’d had been a while. Good to laugh and to catch up and to play the hostess. I ended up having quite a few chats which involved reflecting on…
They were chatting on Radio 4 this morning about funding cuts to the BBC World Service and the potentially tragic choices – eg between Russian and Arabic – that may need to be made. I don’t think I’ve ever really listened to the World Service but it conjures up refined images of tea and Empire,…
Settling down on the train, I replay the conversation in my head. It just got a bit hard, he said, when he hit his mid-twenties and the conventional wedding/kids/property route wasn’t the one he was walking. When his work with the poor raised a different set of questions to those addressed on Sundays. His decision…
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