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downinnorfolk
May 4, 20233 min read
REBUILDING COMMUNITY AROUND THE CHURCH
(This is an article written in the Church News of the Fountain of Life, a new church in the Norfolk village of Ashill, written by the...
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downinnorfolk
Apr 27, 20234 min read
REBUILDING COMMUNITY
I have spent the last couple of weeks bewailing the loss of community and personal relationships in so many aspects of our lives. So,...
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downinnorfolk
Apr 20, 20233 min read
THE LOSS OF LOVE AND TRUST
Last week I wrote about the loss of community. This week I want to highlight the cost of this loss for us all. The cost of all the...
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downinnorfolk
Apr 12, 20233 min read
THE LOSS OF COMMUNITY
I am planning to do something I have not done before with this Blog: to write about the same subject over two or three weeks: about...
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downinnorfolk
Apr 6, 20232 min read
LIFE AFTER DEATH
Is there such a thing? Some people say, no: ‘When you’re dead you’re dead.” Many more seem to think that the dead are somewhere ‘up...
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downinnorfolk
Mar 30, 20234 min read
THE STRANGE STORY OF EASTER
One Friday in the spring of, I think, 29 AD, a man was crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem. Nothing strange in that. Crucifixion...
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downinnorfolk
Mar 23, 20233 min read
IT'S SPRING!
What a joy! Longer days, stronger light, the first signs of green in the hedgerows, the blackthorn in blossom, and banks of daffodils in...
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downinnorfolk
Mar 16, 20233 min read
BACK TO WORK
The Chancellor of the Exchequer wants people to go back to work. It seems that for a variety of reason there are large numbers of people...
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downinnorfolk
Mar 9, 20233 min read
COLONIALISM
I am reading a book called Colonialism by Nigel Biggar, an Oxford theologian and ethicist, and also a Christian. If you want a fair and...
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downinnorfolk
Mar 2, 20233 min read
KATE FORBES
What have we come to? Kate Forbes is a Scottish politician, a member of the Scottish Nationalist Party, and a Christian, in Scottish...
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downinnorfolk
Feb 16, 20232 min read
EARTHQUAKES
What does the Bible say about earthquakes? Not a lot, actually. The Bible knows about earthquakes, but the land of Israel is not...
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downinnorfolk
Feb 9, 20233 min read
OLD AGE
My wife and I are old. I won’t go into details, but let’s say we are both well over 80. There are two phases of retirement and old age:...
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downinnorfolk
Feb 2, 20233 min read
THIRST FOR JUSTICE
There have always been people who have died before their time in dire circumstances: through murders or accidents, through ill-will or...
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downinnorfolk
Jan 26, 20233 min read
PRAYERS FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES
The bishops of the Church of England are proposing to authorise prayers to be said in church blessing a same-sex couple. At the same...
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downinnorfolk
Jan 19, 20233 min read
CHILD SACRIFICE
The most extreme forms of idolatry in the Old Testament were those which involved child sacrifice. Jeremiah condemns the Israelites for...
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downinnorfolk
Jan 13, 20233 min read
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
What are Harry and Megan trying to achieve? It is a conundrum. Their campaign against the rest of the Royal Family seems to be...
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downinnorfolk
Jan 5, 20233 min read
THE LAST CHALLENGE
The beginning of a New Year, and I realise that my wife and I are facing, what you might call, life’s final challenge: the time of life...
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downinnorfolk
Dec 29, 20223 min read
ENDURANCE
What will the New Year bring? Who can tell? But it looks as if at least one of the qualities that we will need is endurance. We have...
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downinnorfolk
Dec 22, 20223 min read
THE NEW WORLD
It is difficult to relate time in this world and time in the world to come. We tend to think of the new world as something that comes at...
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downinnorfolk
Dec 15, 20223 min read
JUDGEMENT DAY
This is what the Lord says, “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. If...
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