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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • May 19
    • 3 min

    Mikhail Khodarenok – The ‘What If?’ Question

    It is reported by the BBC[1] that a senior Russian military figure, Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel has, on a...
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    Antony Pickthall
    • May 6
    • 3 min

    Roe V. Wade - What Would Jesus Do?

    Back in the 70’s and 80’s there were Christians who wore a wrist band with the letters WWJD, standing for ‘What would Jesus Do?’ I never...
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 20
    • 3 min

    Nuclear Sunday

    LISTEN: Nuclear weapons don't prevent war. What they do is create risks that any conflict can escalate into a nuclear one — by mistake
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 15
    • 2 min

    Holy Week: Good Friday

    There are flowers along the way, yellow celandines, and the small insects of early Spring. These leave him, but the flies stay. They...
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 14
    • 2 min

    Holy Week: Maundy Thursday

    The last meal. It ends with a ritual which by its very strangeness is key to our understanding of what Holy Week is about. Jesus washes...
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 14
    • 3 min

    Holy Week: Christ Before Pilate

    Authority and power are often conflated and confused. Before beginning to write this, I checked back on the story of Jesus before Pilate,...
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 2
    • 4 min

    The Church Must Die To Itself

    In the current edition of the Church Times, we are given a stark portrayal of bullying as it is experienced in the Church today.
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    theatreset
    • Mar 13
    • 2 min

    Magnificat

    We tend to think of Lent as a time for keeping to the rules, which makes it a rather miserable season. Right now, I’m looking out of the...
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Jan 25
    • 19 min

    Fear and the Church

    My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing. Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be impetuous...
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    theatreset
    • Jan 11
    • 4 min

    The Things We Tell Ourselves

    Scrolling through twitter a couple of days ago, I came across this tweet ‘What would you tell your 18 year-old self?’ I suppose it very...
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    In Such Times
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Jan 11
    • 4 min

    In Such Times

    Book cover for 'In Such Times: Reflections on Living with Fear' by Lorraine Cavanagh
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    theatreset
    • Jan 4
    • 4 min

    In Such Times

    With all that’s going on in the world right now, the things which we fear in regard to war and disease especially, but also the small...
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    theatreset
    • Dec 20, 2021
    • 4 min

    Doubts About Doubt

    Our candle-lit carol service, last night, was in every way conducive to the contemplation of God. The church wasn’t even freezing cold....
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    theatreset
    • Dec 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    Doing Good

    I bought a copy of The Big Issue yesterday, the first in a long time. I was a bit shocked at the increase in price. Then came a mixture...
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    theatreset
    • Dec 3, 2021
    • 3 min

    Advent – A Time For The Church To Repent

    I have just come from a country where the commercial machinery of Christmas seems to be already operating at full capacity, in a remote...
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    theatreset
    • Nov 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    Atonement and Climate Change – Speed Is Of The Essence

    ‘Those resisting responsibility will hear blame’ writes one of the respondents to my last post. They may, but whether they hear it or...
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    theatreset
    • Nov 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    Ending The Blame Game

    At the end of yesterday’s edition of Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’, Emma Barnett has her guests, John Humphries and Jon Snow, cornered like...
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    theatreset
    • Oct 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Time After Time

    I had one of those moments, yesterday, when life could have taken a radical turn for the worse, or even ended altogether. In fact, it was...
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    theatreset
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 5 min

    Peace, Perfect Peace?

    It suits the powerful not to know what people’s lives are really like, so they use all means available to them to make the people they...
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    theatreset
    • Sep 16, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Trouble With God

    Seldom do the readings set for any one Sunday match the mood of the moment, still less the mood of the person preaching. Take harvest,...
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    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • May 19
    • 3 min

    Mikhail Khodarenok – The ‘What If?’ Question

    It is reported by the BBC[1] that a senior Russian military figure, Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel has, on a...
    6 views0 comments
    Antony Pickthall
    • May 6
    • 3 min

    Roe V. Wade - What Would Jesus Do?

    Back in the 70’s and 80’s there were Christians who wore a wrist band with the letters WWJD, standing for ‘What would Jesus Do?’ I never...
    0 views0 comments
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 20
    • 3 min

    Nuclear Sunday

    LISTEN: Nuclear weapons don't prevent war. What they do is create risks that any conflict can escalate into a nuclear one — by mistake
    1 view0 comments
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 15
    • 2 min

    Holy Week: Good Friday

    There are flowers along the way, yellow celandines, and the small insects of early Spring. These leave him, but the flies stay. They...
    0 views0 comments
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 14
    • 2 min

    Holy Week: Maundy Thursday

    The last meal. It ends with a ritual which by its very strangeness is key to our understanding of what Holy Week is about. Jesus washes...
    2 views0 comments
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 14
    • 3 min

    Holy Week: Christ Before Pilate

    Authority and power are often conflated and confused. Before beginning to write this, I checked back on the story of Jesus before Pilate,...
    0 views0 comments
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Apr 2
    • 4 min

    The Church Must Die To Itself

    In the current edition of the Church Times, we are given a stark portrayal of bullying as it is experienced in the Church today.
    1 view0 comments
    theatreset
    • Mar 13
    • 2 min

    Magnificat

    We tend to think of Lent as a time for keeping to the rules, which makes it a rather miserable season. Right now, I’m looking out of the...
    1 view0 comments
    Lorraine Cavanagh
    • Jan 25
    • 19 min

    Fear and the Church

    My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing. Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be impetuous...
    4 views0 comments
    theatreset
    • Jan 11
    • 4 min

    The Things We Tell Ourselves

    Scrolling through twitter a couple of days ago, I came across this tweet ‘What would you tell your 18 year-old self?’ I suppose it very...
    1 view0 comments