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Disconnected jottings by the Rector of "The Saints" in rural north-east Suffolk, England.
“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognise God’s image in someone who is not in my image, whose language, faith, ideals, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image, instead of allowing Him to remake me in His.”
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"You know you have created God in your own image when He hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
About Me
- Rev. Richard Thornburgh
- Benefice of South Elmham and Ilketshall, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Comment etiquette
Comments are welcome, but they are moderated, and good manners dictates that anonymous ones will rarely be published ... unless of course they are flattering.
The Windsor Report
"The Windsor Report" is just a Report. When did it become like The Bible? The Covenant - why do we need another Covenant? We have the Baptismal Covenant. We have the Creeds. What else do we need?
Bishop Martin Barahona
Primate of Central America.
Bishop Martin Barahona
Primate of Central America.
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Things to Come
There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
("The Life of Brian")
("The Life of Brian")
What I have written, I have written
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- Socks and Nuns
- DROP THE DEAD DONKEY!
- I have acquired some nice Christmas loot.
- Christmas 2009
- All Saints South Elmham
- ... and a time for speaking out
- Silver bells ...
- Sunshine after/before the storm?
- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ....
- Oh Christmas now is drawing near at hand ....
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At only £7.50 inc p&p (UK inland) direct from me
I look here from time to time
Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama
The Higher Truth
Wherever opposite views are held with warmth by religious-minded men, we may take for granted that there is some higher truth which embraces both. All high truth is the union of two contradictories. The truth does not lie between these two, but in a higher reconciling truth which leaves both true.
The truth will be found, not in some middle, moderate, timid doctrine, which skilfully avoids extremes, but in a truth larger than either of these opposite views, which is the basis of both, and which really is that for which each party tenaciously clings to its own view, as to a matter of life and death.
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson M.A.
Opening words of a sermon preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 10th March, 1850.
The truth will be found, not in some middle, moderate, timid doctrine, which skilfully avoids extremes, but in a truth larger than either of these opposite views, which is the basis of both, and which really is that for which each party tenaciously clings to its own view, as to a matter of life and death.
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson M.A.
Opening words of a sermon preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 10th March, 1850.
A thought
There comes a point in your life when you realize
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future..
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future..
Last Words
"As I grow older and older
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom."
attributed to Dorothy L Sayers
"It’s all been rather lovely"
John Le Mesurier
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom."
attributed to Dorothy L Sayers
"It’s all been rather lovely"
John Le Mesurier
These are lovely pictures. Is that the church in the second one? And how would you describe that tower? Is it Norman? I am so ignorant of anything older that Frank Lloyd Wright. :-(
ReplyDeleteThe church is opposite where I live in Ilketshall St Margaret. Norfolk and Suffolk have numerous churches with Saxon round towers, though they are rare anywhere else in England. That view is from the meadow on the SW side. All bar one of my 11 churches have Saxon origins with two, (this and the redundant one at All Saints South Elmham) round towers. The one Victorian church (at Flixton) is an extensive rebuild of one with Saxon foundations. You're talking near-on 1,000 years ago ....
ReplyDeleteAh, well I knew it was old, just not how old. It is a lovely photo. I can imagine how wonderful it would be to see it every day, although it seems to me that some people surrounded by old buildings, churches, and cathedrals seem to become immune to their beauty.
ReplyDeleteYou have 11 churches? Your blog name could also then apply to your circuit, eh?
That's why the blog name was chosen - the area is known as "The Saints" with all but three of my villages are named after saints. The Diocese wouldn't allow the Benefice to be called that though = too holy. Instead we have the snappy short title that fits easily onto cheques and address labels ... The Benefice of South Elmham & Ilketshall. Another opportunity to connect with real life missed by the organisation!
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