Some Thoughts on Solitude
‘You’re never alone with a Strand’ ran the once popular ad. Today, its haunting ambiguity lingers on, inviting reflection on the...
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Lorraine Cavanagh
Oct 5, 20223 min
Mood of the Moment
I am not usually in any kind of identifiable mood, or even frame of mind, when I sit down to write one of these blogs, or, if I am, and...
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Lorraine Cavanagh
Sep 29, 20223 min
My New Memoir: Re-building the Ruined Places - A Journey Through Childhood Trauma
The hardest thing about writing a memoir is explaining to yourself, let alone to anyone else, why you wrote it. I envy the writers of novels
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Lorraine Cavanagh
May 19, 20223 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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Lorraine Cavanagh
Apr 20, 20223 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20223 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, 20224 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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Lorraine Cavanagh
Jan 25, 202219 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, 20224 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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Lorraine Cavanagh
Jan 11, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20214 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20212 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20215 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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Lorraine Cavanagh
Oct 18, 20224 min
Some Thoughts on Solitude
‘You’re never alone with a Strand’ ran the once popular ad. Today, its haunting ambiguity lingers on, inviting reflection on the...
7 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Oct 5, 20223 min
Mood of the Moment
I am not usually in any kind of identifiable mood, or even frame of mind, when I sit down to write one of these blogs, or, if I am, and...
7 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Sep 29, 20223 min
My New Memoir: Re-building the Ruined Places - A Journey Through Childhood Trauma
The hardest thing about writing a memoir is explaining to yourself, let alone to anyone else, why you wrote it. I envy the writers of novels
11 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
May 19, 20223 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...
11 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Apr 20, 20223 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
4 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Apr 15, 20222 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...
5 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Apr 14, 20222 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...
6 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Apr 14, 20223 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, 20224 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.
7 views0 comments
Lorraine Cavanagh
Jan 25, 202219 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...
7 views0 comments
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