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, 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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Feb 16, 20215 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, 20204 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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Aug 22, 20205 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, 20204 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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Jul 14, 20203 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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Jun 30, 20207 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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May 30, 20202 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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May 10, 20203 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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Apr 23, 20203 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, 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...
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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...
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
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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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