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When I was a kid in Barnsley, I spent most of my spare time working on our family farm, supervised by my grandad.

Hello, there is a human being in here

During December, the reading in church was of the flight to Egypt, telling how the Holy Family were accepted as refugees, fleeing for the life of their son.

Birthdays and anniversaries mean that New Year makes me think of my parents.

‘Where are the young people?’ That was my Tanzanian friend’s reaction to her first service at St Martin’s.

On this fourth Sunday in Advent we are invited to ponder afresh the ‘Yes’ of Mary – her decision and her willingness to carry Jesus in her womb and the significant interruption this must have been in her own life.

I might have recited the Nicene Creed over a thousand times.

As I write this in November, I have already been to look at Christmas lights and Christmas trees that have been put up in the shops and spaces around where I live.

In recent years a new business opportunity has emerged: increasingly extravagant Advent Calendars.