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I was very pleased to hear this story, Pam. Too seldom does such a positive light shine on prisoners. I shudder to think how difficult it must be to get through a prison sentence and come out a better person. I would like to feel compassion, hope and confidence in our prison system, and make no apol...

Whatever rules are suggested or demanded, we can choose to set ourselves a higher bar to protect ourselves and others. Firstly, we can avoid making the situation worse by taking risks. We can regard what governments demand as a "minimum standard" because we can do better by being more careful, more ...

Always we begin again. [RSB]

For my friend and mentor, James, who is grieving the loss of an old friend.

...obedience without delay... [RSB]

....I fear, however, that CO-19 will become part of our epidemiological backdrop and we can expect it to offer an on-going threat for some time. It is not in the nature of effective pathogens to kill off their prey species and fizzle out - why would they? They will "want" to keep us going for as lo...

To prefer nothing to the love of Christ. [RSB]

Hi Roger I hope that your experiment at Sunday's worship allows you to continue attending, but whatever decision you make, it will be for your own and others protection. I will await your outcome with interest. I've attended 2 services so far, Ernest - 20ish congregations - spaced out, masked and j...

For The Community of the Holy Cross, Costock.

It will be interesting. I have heard my recorded sermons in services during the lockdown, now people will have the ability to view me in the flesh, oh dear!! And what to wear? Cassock & Surplice &Scarf or, Cassock Alb and Scarf? choices, choices? I will keep you posted after the event :blink: This ...

"You were looking at the speck in your brother's eye,
and did not see the beam in your own" (Matt. 7:3). RSB

...Especially in the light of an apparent upturn in the rate of infection and the new advice on gatherings expected today.

Always we begin again.

"Not to us, O Lord, not to us,
but to Your name give the glory" (Ps. 113[115:1]:9).

"Come, My children, listen to Me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord" (Ps. 33[34]:12).

One of my favourite chapters of RSB is 72: the reading for today. I think it spells out what our approach to the Co-19 recovery should be. Just as there is an evil zeal of bitterness which separates from God and leads to hell, so there is a good zeal which separates from vices and leads to God and t...