These are strange days for those of us whose spiritual lives are not focused on season and liturgy.
Category - suffering
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April 15, 2017
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April 19, 2015
A recent BBC documentary powerfully depicted the plight of Christians in the Middle East, amidst threats by Isis and other forces.
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April 5, 2015
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October 20, 2014
Ebola, war, terrorism, injustice, inequality, squalid government, torture. Sometimes the inventory of cruelty and suffering seems overwhelming. The temptation to spiral into despair and the cynicism born of helplessness can assail us all. But sometimes a glimmer comes in the darkness and smallness no longer seems to equal futility.
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July 29, 2012
This morning I took part in Meeting for Worship in the small 18th century Friends Meeting House at Calf Cop in North Yorkshire. Situated in that area known to Quakers as '1652 country' where the borders of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria come within a few miles of each other, the Meeting House stands in a quiet burial ground bordered by pine trees and looks across an open landscape to the massive flat-topped mountain of Ingleborough.
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April 14, 2011
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July 15, 2009
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July 16, 2007
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February 14, 2007
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December 6, 2006