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Author: stuart
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Billberry City
Roll on the Billberry hunting season! It’s going to be a bumper crop!
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Jesus, the Stubborn Loaf: Still rising
We’re going to get to the end of the story of the Devil wears Prada, or at least the point at which the film ends, but first I think an explanation or two might be required: Perhaps it was a typo, he meant to write risen, but missed and got rising instead. No. Rising is…
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Eh Jesus? Yes Peter? They’re going to kill you for that Jesus!
After the flags and the palm branches and the manic crowd laying their cloaks in the road, the so called triumphal entry looks a little different the morning after. It’s a bit like a party at which something unwelcome has happened half way through, or someone uninvited turns up late and a little too drunk. …
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April
the results of seed bombing I presume: broad beans growing on a verge! No doubt the council mowers will put paid to them before harvest…
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The Jesus – Jerusalem / Prada – Paris dilemma
I want to offer you an image, a tableaux, a freeze frame image if you like from The Devil Wears Prada. Andrea is standing in the road with Nate her boyfriend, or I should say, just about to be ex-boyfriend. She has to make a choice. She has been offered a chance to go to…
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The Mother of all days
Today is Mothering Sunday. What do we associate with this day apart from the cards, chocolates and flowers that abound for Mothers’ Day – an altogether different celebration? Mothers’ Union – a gathering of mothers, a force to be reckoned with – campaigning for women, children and family life issues. Being Mother – the idea…
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Moments of clarity at the well of life
Everyone I suspect has had at least one experience in their life which changes them. A seminal moment if you like, or a moment of clarity. I have had a number of them, and it’s not that i’ve been going looking, they don’t seem to happen if you intentionally go out to have one –…
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The Prada Saga continues: by night…
Poor Nicodemus. Perhaps he was the one who arrived at the Rabbi’s meeting late? Did he lose out on the pulling of straws? Maybe he wanted to speak to Jesus privately for himself? Whatever the reason, he seeks out Jesus under cover of darkness and has a truly strange conversation. Of course when listening to…
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The devil wears the wilderness well
The devil wears the wilderness well. Devil attacks when it’s easy – when we are vulnerable and in need. Our basic desires are attacked with temptation: Bread for the hungry. Riches for the poor. Power for the weak. But is this true: What is it the hungry truly need, but any meal. What do the…
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March