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The Age of Potential

The Age of Potential

An address given to the pupils and Staff of Bishop Wordsworth School Salisbury Cathedral Shrove Tuesday 28th February 2017 I wonder what your perfect age is? What number would be your choice? Perhaps that number – your ideal age – uniquely individual as it will be reflects something of your relationship to time, your priorities and values. Your ideal age might also reveal some of our fears and even prejudices about age. They are rare people who are able to…

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Going Deeper for Truth and Freedom

Going Deeper for Truth and Freedom

A Sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 25th September 2016  at Evensong (John 8, 31- 38,48 – end)   John 8;32,33 ‘If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples;  and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’  If you visit Birmingham Cathedral what will strike you is the extraordinary stained-glass of the Burne-Jones windows, vibrant with colour and light. Less striking, but no less powerful, is a simple carved stone in…

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