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Walking with the Saints – Day 1

May 17, 2016 / admin / blog
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Synod Pilgrimage: Faith Streams – Living Waters Monday May 16 It’s that time of year again – time for a synod pilgrimage. This time the pilgrims’ sense of adventure has led us beyond the bounds of synod geography, and we’re in Cumbria, staying in the comfort of the Windermere Centre, and ready for day walks […]

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Bloggers

May 5, 2016 / admin / blog, bloggers
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How many people in our synod are regular (or even occasional) bloggers? Do you have thoughts to share – about the challengers of the faith, about the realities of church life, or anything else that others might like to hear and even respond to? We’d like to put up a link to your blogging from this site…. […]

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2016: Kyrie Eleison

December 30, 2015 / admin / blog
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In my many Christmas letters I received this year was one from my dear friend Revd Dr. Roger Newell, former minister of Claypath United Reformed Church, Durham, now Professor of Religious Studies, George Fox University, Portland, Oregon, USA. At the end of his letter Roger remarked that Pope Francis “made him smile…….he makes me feel […]

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Christmas means we are no longer alone

December 24, 2015 / admin / blog
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A reflection by Ray Anglesea What is Christmas? It may surprise you to learn that most of the images, customs and paraphernalia we associate with it are quite modern. Having been three times now to Euro Disney, Paris with my Newcastle Choir to sing at the November opening of the Disney Winter Wonderland Spectacular, Hollywood […]

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A Requiem for Paris

November 28, 2015 / admin / blog
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A reflection prepared by Ray Anglesea for his congregation at Crook The sorrow of the massacre in Paris has been shocking as it has been heartbreaking. Parisians, tourists and expats  – innocent people of all ages, faiths and backgrounds cut down without mercy. The news is still difficult to absorb – the murder of innocent lives leaves us […]

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A Dead Man’s Gift – Review

November 23, 2015 / admin / blog
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Reviewing the newly published book by Ruth Crofton A Dead Man’s Gift is a beautifully crafted short fictional story with its genesis in the narrative of the wise men so much a part of the Nativity Story.  The book is a delightful and thought provoking story.  It is drawn from the author’s experiences of travelling […]

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Dede in church

October 11, 2015 / admin / blog
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Despite all the things we say about diversity, I do worry about the sameness of our congregations. But does this extract from Barnard Castle’s church magazine give us any cause for hope, I wonder? At least it seemed to me worth sharing more widely…. (And I’m sorry I’m posting a week after the Feast of […]

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Anniversaries

October 11, 2015 / admin / blog
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2015 seems to have been a bumper year for anniversaries. In June Her Majesty the Queen paid a visit to Germany, 70 years after the end of the Second World War. During the same month the nation celebrated the signing of Magna Carta  – in Durham City a three month major exhibition was held to celebrate […]

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Unlikely Pilgrimages

September 20, 2015 / admin / blog
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Reflection shared with the West Durham Methodist Circuit Pilgrimage 19-September-2015 I first had the pleasure of reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce a couple of years ago (Publisher: Black Swan; 2 Jan. 2013). It is a story about an old, unfit, retired sales rep, Harry Fry, who after receiving a letter resolves to walk […]

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9/11 Remembered

September 4, 2015 / admin / blog
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Ray Anglesea shared these thoughts with the congregation at Crook last Sunday Last year at Eastertide my wife and I had the privilege of attending morning worship at St Paul’s Chapel, Lower Manhattan, New York City, a chapel steeped in history.  The chapel is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan (1766). George Washington was […]

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