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Wednesday 8th March, 2023 I grew up in the small northern mill town of Radcliffe and went to school in the neighbouring town; Bury. These places are the proud homes of Danny Boyle, Elbow and Sir Robert Peel. Whilst I had little to no interest in local history I couldn’t help but know about Robert …
Monday 27th Feb 2023 Are you an easily offended snowflake? I know I am. I’m offended by injustice and abuse.Spend any time on social media and you’ll find someone complaining about “cancel culture” and “the woke” and “snowflakes.” “We should have free speech” they will protest, and they are right, we should have free speech. …
18th February, 2021 If you’ve experienced abuse you know that it’s not limited to violence or to single incidents but follows a pattern of coercion and control. When I was with my abuser, I experienced abuse under all the following headings. When I worked with other women who had been abused these categories were familiar …
Monday 20th February, 2023 When the guy I was just starting a new relationship with threatened to break the legs of another guy who had been flirting with me it should have been a big red flag.Instead, I thought it was romantic. I fell in love, we got married and…. Well you know the rest. …
Friday 17th February, 2023 “Kindness. n. the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate” A few years ago, following the death of Caroline Flack the hashtag #bekind trended as people urged one another to treat others as you wish to be treated, because you never know the pain someone is hiding inside. ‘Do unto others’ …
25th January 2022. John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” (Luke 3:11)I wonder sometimes what the church would look like if it took the same attitude to money as it does to sex.Just before the pandemic the House …
24th March 2019 Power, it’s all about Power. In the beginning God gave us power. He gave us power over ‘the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, over livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ He gave us power so that we would …
15th April 2019 Isaiah 1:16-17 “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widows cause.” It’s not rocket science is it. Even Bill Esquire Prescott and Ted Theodore Logan …
Friday 23rd December 2022 “The wolf shall live with the lamb,The leopard shall lie down with the kid,The calf and the lion and the fatling together,And a little child shall lead them.” (Isaiah 11:6) I look forward to the day the Conservative and the Progressive live together,When the Humanist, and the Christian and the Muslim …
24th December 2021 I read an article last week, for advent, asking the question: “Does the bible really claim that Mary was a virgin?” and after reading the article I read the comments. Never. Read. The. Comments. It wasn’t long before cries of “heretic” and “false teacher were being slung across the data stream. The …