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Jan 2022
As a teenager in the 80s, I remember going to my library to research the topic of comparative religions. I had a Christian upbringing of sorts, where both my Father and Mother accepted the reality of God, but that’s as far as it went. The only time we attended church was for funerals or marriages. My grandmother (on my mother’s side), was a strong Methodist, and I occasionally went with her to chapel as they called it. However, as I grew older I stopped going and that’s why my nan called my......
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The Reason For The Season: A Reflection.
Once more, it’s Christmas and as usual, we are bombarded by adverts left, right and center. Celebrities like Julia Roberts, Chris Hemsworth, Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, etc, are endorsing products for which they get...
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Feeling Left Out?
Everone, regardless of who we are, or the status we have in life, will have experienced feelings of being ‘left out’. For example, you can feel left out in your marriage, with family, with...
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The Persecuted Christian: Increasingly in the West and Harsher Persecution Abroad.
Being a Christian and declaring one’s faith is not easy nowadays. Even the Western world, once known for ‘Christendom’, has been seriously challenged with the advent of other faiths, including secularism and humanism. However,...
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What Now for Afghanistan with Taliban Taking Back Control?
We have all seen the awful scenes at Kabul Airport with refugees queueing in their thousands in the hope of catching a flight out of Afghanistan. Many of these people will have worked for...
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Mistakes Maketh Man.
When Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden and took that fatal and forbidden bite of the apple, we learn from the book of Genesis that this was the first act of...
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Missing My Canine Companion.
I recently lost a dear friend and companion, one who has been with me for the 9 years year or so that I have lived in Blackpool. This friend did not judge me on...
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Right Reaction.
How do you react to situations? It seems there will always be something to grind our gears. The fight or flight mechanism exists in all creatures, as it does in humans, and is a...
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Israel and Palestine: War Without End?
Once more, sadly, we seem to be in a cycle of escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians. How many times have we seen this endless and pointless violence? Israelis and Arab leaders, plus Western...
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Take Time, to Stop, and Take It All In.
Do we ever stop to think, what a miracle it is to be alive? Every second, every minute, every hour, is literally a miracle, in the truest sense of the word! Every cell, every...
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