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  • Beyond These Shores

    It is 20:20 Vision Sunday here in the Church in Wales today which counts most of us out as the majority will not have as good eye sight as that, and it probably counts the rest out and most of us out a second time for wondering what exactly does 20:20 Vision mean and how…

  • Playtime, Jesus, and summer festivals

    Playtime, Jesus, and summer festivals

    Anyone who has spent any time at all in a school playground will know that break times are a perfect opportunity for children to let off steam, play games and without knowing it prepare themselves for later life by forging social relations and practising with friends and peers and the MDSA’s what we called ‘dinner…

  • On a town's poverty

    On returning to a town… The signs read as follows: Closed, Changed, Under new management, redesigned, updated, and I guess for some ‘left behind’ would also be appropriate. The old stone walls of a familiar building bid a welcome retreat from the rain. The welcome is short lived. A silent inquisition at the rerodos leaves…

  • Remembrance

    ‘Y Ddau Brennin” The tale of the Two Kings – a Danish folk tale re-told for remembrance. In the book ‘Active Hope’ by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone a folk tale is recounted from Denmark.  Though the story is perhaps unremarkable, it sheds light on remembrance from a different angle.  Here it is, re-told from…

  • Greenbelt – Saved by Paradise?

    If we engaged with Peter Owen Jones & Bruce Stanley then perhaps (always worth listening) …And then the rain came down, almost comical that on the CT guide to greenbelt there was an Ark.  Dave did you know in advance what was going to happen on Saturday…?  Musical Highlights included Timbre (below) EmanuEl in the…

  • January 14th

    Beaten only by the Steak and Ale Pie that followed it!

  • January 13th

    Could be anywhere!

  • January 12th

    Walking for inspiration

  • January 11th

    Never thought I’d say glad to see that sign

  • January 10th