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I have started my doctoral research, and had my first supervision last week. I am so conscious of my brain having atrophied for the last decade or so…
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This is something I wrote way back in February 2006, but the more I watch the world descend into polarised righteous anarchy, the more I feel it needs…
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This is just me musing out loud… I'm pretty sure the image wasn't original to me but it was nearly 12 years ago that I started to think in terms of…
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I enjoyed Paul Hackwood's two articles in the Church Times critiquing the centralising tendencies of the Church of England, but amidst much agreement…
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I am hoping to start a PhD at the University of Bristol from January. This is the research plan that I have submitted, which I thought might be of…
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Like most of the world around it, the Church of England is so caught up in busyness and anxious make-work that it has ceased to attend to what is truly…
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At the heart of our modern predicament lies a way of seeing the world that is characterised by carelessness – a carelessness that is systematically…
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Just a quickie
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Just so people have some idea of what might be coming through their in-box… I expect to write regularly about: the state of the Church of England, and…
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Welcome to Elizaphanian by me, Sam Charles Norton. Vicar in the Forest of Dean. Other things too. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the…
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