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This last year has reminded us starkly of a truth common to every human being – that each one of us one day will face the sorrow of being parted from those we love by death and ultimately the reality of our own death too.

Along the pilgrim way, near Canterbury we came to All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph where refreshment abides.

Recently, I’ve found this sentence from Psalm 46 to be more comforting that I would have thought (not generally being a Psalm reader).

It feels like we are beginning to emerge from the pandemic into a significantly different world.

My childhood memories of Harvest Festivals are of staid hymns and tins of soup and sweetcorn – I wasn’t a big fan.

It’s been quite a long haul, but I have finally finished reading all 974 pages of Dostoevsky’s epic novel The Karamazov Brothers.

I wonder if you saw Emma Raducanu win the American Open tennis championship.

During the pandemic, quite a few of us discovered regular Morning Prayer.

I can’t have been the only one flummoxed to hear that the radical jihadist Sunni Muslim Taliban, bent on the imposition of its brand of sharia law, was under attack from the radical jihadist Sunni Muslim local squad of Isis, known as Isis Khorasan Province.