Author: Richard Hall
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Thoughts on the Nativity
What if the inn of the Nativity story was actually a guest room?
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Hymn of the day
JESUS comes with all his grace, Comes to save a fallen race, Object of our glorious hope, Jesus comes to lift us up! Let the living stones cry out! Let the seed of Abram shout! Praise we all our lowly King, Give him thanks, rejoice, and sing! He has our salvation wrought, He our captive…
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One more test
If you read this on Mastodon, will you do me a favour and make a reply from there, please?
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Another Test
I’ve tweaked the settings on the ActivityPub plug-in that connects this blog to the Fediverse, so this post is a test to see whether or not I have broken it. But it does give me the opportunity to say that you can follow the blog directly in Mastodon if you’d like to: @richard should do…
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Christmas Expectations
Expectations are hard things to live with. In a culture increasingly driven by “targets”, the expectations we have of ourselves and others can be a source of great hurt and confusion. This is especially true when our expectations do not match those of others. And it has to be said that there are many times…
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Hey Jesus! (A Christmas Sketch)
Format is (ahem!) borrowed from the Iona Community… Peter: Hey Jesus! Jesus: Yes Peter? P: What starsign are you?
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The truth of Genesis
I was talking to someone recently about the evolution ‘debate’. He got very troubled when I spoke of the first chapter of Genesis as a myth. “If Genesis 1 isn’t true, how can we trust anything the Bible says?” he asked. Imagine yourself in one of those photobooths that takes passport pictures. When you collect…
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The Expressive Camera: homework assignment
A Day in the life of… Ted Not very happy with this set, but there wasn’t much time and it is better to do something than nothing.
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God rest ye merry!
I’ve a mind to make “God rest ye merry!” my email sign off for the rest of Advent and Christmas.