I’ve mentioned before that it is one a paradox of the contemporary church that groups which might be identified as conservative or Bible believing can have surprisingly little Scripture read during their services, while those that might be characterised as progressive or liberal in their attitude to Scripture can have four separate readings each week. …

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I conducted funerals during the COVID restrictions. We had a family funeral during the later stages of COVID restrictions. One of the most draining parts of a wretched two weeks was curating a list of 125 names that were coming to the funeral, which had to be provided to the funeral directors. Of all the …

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There’s a lot of silence in times of grief. We lack words to express what we feel. We lack the capacity to bear what the grieving express. I think living with grief gives a context in which a language to express feeling, and an ability to hear what the grieving say, can develop. If we …

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