Sometimes we read the Bible and find it hard to relate the text to contemporary society. On other occasions the relevance is vividly clear. ‘Beware’, said Jesus, ‘that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he’ and, ‘The time is near!’ Do not go after them.’ …
Music to Our Ears
Back in October, it was an absolute delight to accompany the East Knoyle Village Choir on their rendition of Abba’s ‘Fernando’. I had been initially hesitant and rather nervous, since my rhythm and timing are often ‘dodgy’, to say the least, but I was really well tutored by Louise Brown and Rachel Naish, and found …
Hope Is What You Do
Do you ever ‘feel’ hopeless? Faced with some of our world’s most intractable and complex problems I believe many of us frequently do. A few weeks I attended a seminar with the Dean of the Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem, Richard Sewell. He spoke of his experience 2 years ago, of first hearing of the horrific …
Hide and Seek
Do you have memories of favourite childhood games? Tag or ‘It’, Stuck in the Mud, Bulldog – which I never understood the rules of but was repeatedly banned because it was too violent – and that was in an all-girls convent school! Hide and seek was always particularly exciting because you couldn’t play it just …