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Author Archives: stayingfaithful
Living His Testimonies
I want to explore Psalm 119. Not all in one go! But I have been appreciating it for some time now, and recently I bumped into someone who had gone one better than me and memorized the Psalm in Hebrew. … Continue reading
How much do you need?
I will never forget a short children’s message I heard one Christmas, not when I was a child, but asking the question: How much do you need before you accept Christ? All the wise men had was a star! When … Continue reading
Bedside reading snapshot
Every now and again I have to do a cull as the piles of books by my bed topple over and I can’t fit a cup of tea there. (This is partly the reason why I have a couple of … Continue reading
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DECOLONISING THE ENGLISH FACULTY: AN OPEN LETTER
Originally posted on Fly.:
SIGN THE OPEN LETTER HERE The following letter is the result of a meeting that took place amongst students about the need for the faculty to decolonize its reading lists and incorporate postcolonial thought alongside its…
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Paradise Lost 2: Written in the Heart
Originally posted on readerjanedavis:
? Front Garden early morning 27 August Last Sunday I started my online reading of Paradise Lost in honor of Milton’s Cottage celebratory reading aloud of the whole poem – which they undertook in order to…
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My ten best things in all the world No. 6
Did you know that 25,000 people die every day from hunger and poverty? Jesus in the gospels said: ‘The poor you will always have with you….” This is not an excuse not to help them. I completely identify with the … Continue reading
The ten best things in the world No. 5
I have included this next topic as ‘inessential’, as wacky or non-serious. It could go down as either. Take friendship too seriously, and it disappears in its own intensity. Friendship is about connections that last – chance encounters that lead … Continue reading
My Ten Best Things in all the world No. 4
During the school holidays (I’m a teacher, okay?) I have a daily quandary – do I grind some beans and make myself my second hot drink of the day, the first being always a decaf tea, OR do I pop … Continue reading
Ten best things about the world No. 3….
Have you ever prepared for a presentation, or a lesson, or a research project, and just as you have printed your piece or sent it off, done and dusted, you come across a startling YouTube video that says it all … Continue reading
My Ten Best Things about the World: No. 2…
So the logic with this series of posts is to go ‘slightly wacky’, then, ‘serious’. This is the serious one after parkrun. And it doesn’t get much more serious than this. Now that I have a little more leisure, I … Continue reading
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