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The Unbearable Tightness Of Marmalade

rn I spent Thursday morning talking to different classes at Bowker Vale Primary School about the parable of the good Samaritan (note the power of language - nowadays Samaritans are good in this country, and it's all on the strength of one story told by one man 2000 years ago.  Jesus reverses the meaning of the word!). rnrn Part of it wa...
Grunt, grunt, grunt!

rn Grunt, grunt, grunt!!rn  rnrn      About half a century ago, several hundred schoolboys used to gather together on a large number of mornings to create as little noise as possible. Does this ring true? Well, it is. The occasions were the (upper) school assemblies at the grammar school I attended, and the object of the exer...
The Graveyard At Midnight

What does it mean to be made in the image of God?rnrnIt's probably not that we look like God (or he looks like us). rnrnIs it to do with souls and spirits?  No, I don't know either.  Nor is the Bible especially forthcoming, and at the point where God happily creates us in his image (even knowing what must lie ahead), we on...
The Graveyard At Midnight

What does it mean to be made in the image of God?rnrnIt's probably not that we look like God (or he looks like us). rnrnIs it to do with souls and spirits?  No, I don't know either.  Nor is the Bible especially forthcoming, and at the point where God happily creates us in his image (even knowing what must lie ahead), we on...
Have Your Wagon Wheels Fallen Off?

rn Hello again.  How did you manage with the Famous First Words quiz?  The answers are... rnrn “Call me Ishmael” is the first line of Moby Dick by Herman Melville.rnrn “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen” kicks off George Orwell’s 1984.rnrn “It was the best of tim...