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Private Public Lives

It will be a pity if Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s biopic of the iconic American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, is only remembered...
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Sleep Distractions and Sermon

The actor Andrew Scott has recently spoken about his need to very emphatically pause in the middle of a Shakespearean play. The reason...
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Compelling Stories

I love the TV advert for Audible that begins: “The greatest storyteller always had the perfect story whenever you needed to hear it.”...
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Will it do?

I love the exchange between Fred Craddock, the legendary teacher of preaching, and one of his students. The student had turned in a...
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Making Christmas Count

When I started this blog yesterday, I had not anticipated that on my visit to teach at Spurgeon’s College today I would find the statue...
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1066 and all that!

There has been something of a storm in France over Ridley Scott’s new film Napoleon. There is no question over the lavish splendour of...
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Advent Voices

We are on the cusp of entering Advent. Churches will be getting their four candles ready, and the one for Christmas Day. The young and...
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Variables

The end of November is the time I tend to think about Christmas. It begins with looking at all the TV adverts from the supermarkets. They...
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Showroom or Workshop

When I stepped into church as a visitor on Sunday morning I was asked if I wanted a pencil to take notes on the sermon. Personally, I...
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Some Like it Hot!

My wife and I have just returned from holiday. At dinner every evening the food was served on piping hot plates that were still warm to...
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Leaving on a Jet Plane

My post-settled-pastor life has involved taking a lot of flights to Riga. The service and punctuality of Air Baltic is generally...
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Story Telling

Martin Scorsese who at 80 is in London to mark the release of his latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, was asked by an interviewer,...
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