True Resurrection
If you are someone who has to speak publicly about the events of Good Friday, and if you have done that with integrity and the conviction...
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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...
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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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