Showing everything tagged as Thought for the week

There was always a gigantic slab of coal, balanced on a plank of wood suspended between the corbels of the Romanesque arch carved with Norman lattice work and leading to the chancel.

Over the summer I read Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads.

As many of you will know, I had a scheduled hip replacement at the end of June.

A few years ago at The Connection, we had an ethical dilemma.

We are about to start a season where we look at our finances together.

I recall leaving university and realising that, as a student, I’d learned to work alone and socialise with others – whereas when I started employment, I had to adjust to working with others but, being in an unfamiliar town, spending my leisure time alone.

The liminal space is a gift.

The history of Western science may be framed as a series of paradigm shifts – a series of discoveries which fundamentally change the previous ideas and practices in a particular field.

This comes from our holiday away from just about everything.