Local group, Events
Merseyside and North Wales local group meeting
Next meeting on Saturday 15th March at 1 – 4pm in Liverpool
Next meeting on Saturday 15th March at 1 – 4pm in Liverpool
For my last contribution before handing this space over to a new contributor under Sofia’s new editor, I’ve chosen to home in on the subject of confessing. Not having been brought up to attend regular...
Forgiveness is such a key Christian concept that it is unsurprising that scripture is full of it. Looking afresh at familiar quotations I find myself wondering whether we have accepted them too uncritically.
John Pearson: At Conference we heard that there were once 27 active Local Groups, spread around the country; a valued link for us all, for the Network and for one another. We made new friends...
Penny Mawdsley writes about Fear. Idly reminiscing recently, I remembered how my sister and I dared Granny to climb a tree in her garden. She had already won our bet to skip 100 times over...
Penny Mawdsley asks ‘Blessed are the Wealth Makers?’ An article bearing this title, but without the question mark, by Hugh Rayment-Pickard appeared in Church Times on 20th July 2012. I had saved it and came...
In the same way as 9/11 has become a 21st century memorable date for the West – and to many areas beyond it, and 7/7 has become another, especially for Londoners, 7/10/23 in our British...
Penny Mawdsley makes some Short Sorties into Silence. For a hearing test recently, I experienced being in a dark anechoic chamber. The silence between the staggered bursts of sound were eerie and I was glad...
Sadly, today a penny will no longer buy a hot cross bun or a contribution towards a 5th November firework, let alone help an old man when one is dropped in his hat at Christmastime....
the little book of humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy by Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts. Piatkus (London 2020). Hbk. 256 pages. £6.55. Last year Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts of Humanists...