Lorraine Cavanagh
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
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 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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Lorraine Cavanagh
- Apr 20, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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- Feb 16, 2021
- 5 min
What To Do About Lent
I admire those who can claim that Lent is a time of renewal and refreshment. Right now, I doubt many of us can think of it in that way,...
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- Sep 29, 2020
- 4 min
The Season of the Angels
Today is the feast of Michaelmas, the beginning of the season of the angels. As a child, I did a fair bit of travelling, usually on small...
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theatreset
- Aug 22, 2020
- 5 min
Sermon for the 11th Sunday after Trinity
Matt. 16:13-20; Is. 51:1-6; Rom.12:1-8 “Who do you say that I am?” Most Sundays, it’s quite clear which text is the one the sermon should...
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- Jul 18, 2020
- 4 min
The Wheat and the Tares
Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Trinity Matt.13:24-30; 36-43 Two sermons about seeds and sowing on two consecutive Sundays. Someone is...
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theatreset
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
Alan Bennett’s Irene
We watched the first instalment of Alan Bennet’s ‘Talking Heads’ (currently streaming on BBC i-player) last night, starring the...
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theatreset
- Jun 30, 2020
- 7 min
A Bounded Freedom
It seems that these endless weeks of bounded freedom, the only name I can think to give to this period of lockdown, are drawing to a...
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theatreset
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Pentecost at Minneapolis
Pentecost is upon us, the season of fire and purgation. Is this what we are seeing in Minneapolis? The anger is righteous, though the...
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theatreset
- May 10, 2020
- 3 min
Social Media and the Virtual Church
There is a monumental twitter and facebook spat going on at the moment, having to do with whether and where it is or isn’t right to...
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theatreset
- Apr 23, 2020
- 3 min
All The Time In The World
There was no internet connection this morning. Like many people, I find being unexpectedly cut adrift in this way frustrating but this...
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Lorraine Cavanagh
- Oct 18, 2022
- 4 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...
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Lorraine Cavanagh
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 3 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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Antony Pickthall
- Sep 27, 2022
- 4 min
Let Love Be Genuine
Chance conversations often have the most profound significance. Yesterday, I got caught up in one, a half over-heard exchange between...
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Antony Pickthall
- Jul 26, 2022
- 3 min
Salvation
We’re not particularly geared for extreme temperatures here in Wales, where I live. We literally grind to a halt. The cattle in the field...
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Lorraine Cavanagh
- May 19, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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