Film

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Early on Easter morn, just before dawn, as the chorus of birds are beginning, all over the land children rush down to the breakfast table to see how much chocolate they have conned various relatives into buying this year! Later that afternoon, cardboard and foil wrappers litter the living room floor, discarded in favour of the sweet brown delight that lurks within each one of them. Do we blame them? Well no, because we were once like that with chocolate smeared grins of satisfaction and who are we to deny the innocent pleasure in chocolate! Chocolat is such a...

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Harvest Festivities

This was shown at the harvest service, someone commented that it always seemed to be sunny in the vicarage garden.

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Brian was right

So was his mother…  (well partly at least) I didn’t quite preach this last Sunday, but it was something similar, the following is pretty much the thinking behind it, albeit done after the event in true Primary/Secondary Theological fashion. Monty Python’s Life of Brian may have been one of those films which invoked passions of loathing or loving from religious commentators and practitioners alike however, I think that Brian may have been right. I’m pretty sure his mother was also right on one count at least, ‘He’s not the messiah’ but perhaps misguided on the second, ‘he’s a very...

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  • Eulogy

    No not mine. Damn, some may say! But one given about a dear friend. He and his colleague were working amongst the youth of the church and when getting together remarked at how much the church needed to change and how it didn’t support those it ought. There were very aware of the shortcomings of the church It is just a shame, he said that they were not quite so aware of their own! Something to ponder for lent – be less cynical!

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