Author: John Hodgkinson

John Hodgkinson

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Bringing Religion Down to Earth

Bringing Religion Down to UNTIL RECENT TIMES, popular thought about the universe was in the mediaeval terms of earth and heaven. Earth; heavy, static, natural, but subject to continuous change, to corruption and death; “secular”,...

1 June 1997

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What Is Prayer?

Here is a personal view from John Hodgkinson ) me, prayer is an expression of the human spirit, reaching out in love and concern. In The Age of Gaia, James Lovelock quotes Gergory Bateson: ‘The...

1 July 1996

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Imagine…

John Hodgkinson Hypnotherapy works by the use of images (the imagination) in that half-way state between sleeping and waking. Here, it seems that images suggested by oneself or a therapist bring about the healing of...

1 March 1995

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Thanksgiving for Life: A New Approach to Services at Times of Bereavement

THANKSGIVING FOR LIFE A NEW APPROACH TO SERVICES AT TIMES OF BEREAVEMENT John Hodgkinson Unrelieved black surrounded the funerals of yesterday, with solemn mourning and dark thoughts … “0 Lord most holy … deliver us...

1 June 1991

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A Radical Parson’s Progress

SPRING 1990 PAGE 13 SEA OF FAITH MAGAZINE A RADICAL PARSON’S PROGRESS by John Hodgkinson Born in 1927 I grew up within the church and with an assurance of God’s presence and power. The step...

1 March 1990