Category: pastoral care
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insuring a good welcome*
Being diligent consumers, when our insurances are up for renewal we shop around. We check to see that the price we have been quoted and the cover offered is the best available. And if we can get a better deal that our current insurer can’t match we will switch to the new insurer. A while…
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time’s up!
Hello The blog is back. Of course you knew that because you had already seen a new blog entry was available and had clicked on it to get this far. I had an email last week that surprised me. During my time working for the Baptist Union of Great Britain I clocked up a few…
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he who laughs last… didn’t get the joke
Is it wrong to feel happy when someone struggles to pronounce ‘Schadenfreude’*? I have recently been the cause of a lot of joy for other people. Rotten rail journeys that went wrong have caused a certain amount of glee for people who have experienced them vicariously through my Facebook statuses. I think that counts as…
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booking time
I have four books sitting on my desk that are ready to be read. Some of them have been on my desk for a while. They have not gathered dust (because they keep getting moved around to make space). But they have not been opened in anger or engaged with in a meaningful way. It…
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chill
Fridge magnet available at Amazon… In the big scheme of things, this is rather a petty post. We are having a new fridge today. In fact the blokes are bringing it into the house as I type. It was needed because our old one kept freezing everything – things in the fridge bit, not…
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ring ring, ring ring
I have an interesting task ahead of me today. I have been asked to bless someone’s new ring. It’s not a wedding ring. I think it is a ring that they wear to bring them good luck. What to do? All sorts of theological issues are raised. It reminds me of an occasion when I…
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coffee time
I had an interesting experience on Sunday morning. The churches in central Colchester did a ‘pulpit swap’ as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. For the uninitiated that does not mean that we swap our pulpits, lecterns and daises but that Ministers go to different churches. I was at a church…
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I am over 100!
Little things please little minds. I have now had over 100 people visit my blog since I stuck a counter on it. If one of them was you, thank you. And thank you for coming back. Your visits make it all worthwhile. Eventually the counter will be spinning so fast it resembles an old-fashioned petrol pump…
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