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The Year Turns, Part 4

20th March 2021 Going Postal 2316 Comments

Ēostre My earliest memories of this time of year involve decorating eggs, going to the local park, and rolling them down a hill. Well, more of a small embankment than a hill, but the thought [more…]

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The ‘Crockford’s Clerical’ Murder

10th March 2021 bobo 2140 Comments

On Sunday 6 December 1987, the Reverend Doctor Canon Gareth Vaughan Bennett returned home after spending a most agreeable weekend with friends in Cambridge. On the way he had given a colleague a lift home, [more…]

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Korea, Suwon, Part 2

18th February 2021 Joe Slater 3217 Comments

Christianity in Korea—Just Why? The Catholics formed the vanguard of Christianity’s march into East Asia. They first arrived in Korea in the late 1700s, and met with the same hostile reception as they had in [more…]

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Korea, Suwon, Part 1

11th February 2021 Joe Slater 4958 Comments

Samsung City Suwon is a city of about a million people, about an hour south of central Seoul by train. I suppose you could call it a scaled-up Korean version of Guildford, on the edge [more…]

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‘Deliver us from Evil’

24th January 2021 Going Postal 2272 Comments

The Lord’s Prayer Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And [more…]

Christianity

The Psalms

6th December 2020 Going Postal 2384 Comments

Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort [more…]

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Dead babies don’t come cheap

23rd November 2020 Rookwood 1955 Comments

As of some date in 2020, we have finally emerged from beneath our cloying and heavyweight safety blanket to embrace a horrific and unpalatable truth. Whatever freedom we thought we had as individuals has been [more…]

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SOS

21st October 2020 Going Postal 3639 Comments

It’s been nearly two months since the alarm was raised. “Migrant overboard in English Channel.” That was the night of August 18th and it wasn’t long before the headline writers got to work, blaming the [more…]

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In Cathar Country, Part Two

24th August 2020 Tom Pudding 2906 Comments

Introduction Although the castles in the Aude department of France are now referred to collectively as ‘Cathar Castles,’ the term is misleading in that while their sites may once have provided refuge for Cathars fleeing [more…]

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