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It’s been almost four weeks since one of my oldest friends, Nick, had what should have been a fairly routine, albeit serious, operation.

George is a doctor I very much admire.

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.