27 February 2022 Newsletter

Sunday 27 February 2022

Earlier this week, the government announced the repeal of the 200-year-old Vagrancy Act that made rough sleeping and begging a criminal offence.

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Caught in the storm

Sunday 20 February 2022

After two years of COVID I expect a lot of us can identify with Jesus’ disciples, caught in a vulnerable fishing boat, out on the lake, in the middle of a storm.

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Looking hard

Sunday 13 February 2022

This year I’ve made what Michelle Obama calls a ‘swerve’, veering from a career as a barrister to studying for a diploma in the conservation of ceramics.

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King of Kings

Sunday 6 February 2022

In the small hours of 6 February 1952, King George VI died.

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Hallelujah

Sunday 30 January 2022

One of my Christmas presents this year was Leonard Cohen, The Mystical Roots of Genius, by Harry Freedman.

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May the dark clouds roll away

Sunday 23 January 2022

At the beginning of this New Year, I’ve been writing and talking about the ways faith is expressed in and through pop music in all its many guises.

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Healthy Guilt

Sunday 16 January 2022

Recent years have been characterised in this country by a phenomenon I don’t recall experiencing to the same degree before: the upsurge of a collective sense of guilt too great for anyone to dissipate.

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Bringing gifts

Sunday 9 January 2022

Epiphany has always been a bit ‘Marmite’ for me.

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St Stephen and St Paul ‘in Hong Kong’!

Sunday 26 December 2021

Prior to his conversion, St Paul was present at St Stephen’s martyrdom in Acts 7.

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