All Souls Langham Place
Facing up to the UK Adoption crisis
For some reason, the British church has been very slow to take up the challenge of adoption. This is a tragedy. As things stand at the
4th April 2014
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childhood
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childhood
Friday Fun 46: Memories of running away from school
It seems that my prep school, where I boarded from aged 8-13 (yes I know, I’m still trying to catalogue the subsequent privileged hangups), is 150
12th July 2013
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childhood
Rage, Righteousness, the Apostle and the Delphic Oracle
Righteous anger is essential. I’d say there is nothing like enough of it about. But at the same time, I’d say there is far too
19th March 2013
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20th Century
Bursting the Self-Esteem Bubble once and for all? Glynn Harrison on a Big Ego Trip
It’s easy to forget the psychobabble jargon that is now so part of everyday parlance had its origins in serious academic discourse. It’s pretty obvious
15th March 2013
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childhood
Friday Fun 35: Restoring the art of acquaintance-making
Throughout our years working with students from the two Sheffield universities, we would have between 4-6 for Sunday lunch every week during term. It was
15th February 2013
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ARTS
Francis Spufford on Childhood books 4: Why Narnia matters
For me, though, the standout of Francis Spufford’s reading memoir The Child That Books Built is the chapter entitled The Island. For it is here that he
15th January 2013
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ARTS
Francis Spufford on Childhood books 3: Why libraries matter
One of the most poignant aspects of Francis Spufford’s reading memoir The Child That Books Built is his having to come to terms with his younger (by
14th January 2013
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ARTS
Francis Spufford on Childhood books 2: Why fairy tales matter
Having considered the importance of stories and fiction in general, Spufford in The Child That Books Built now works through the different stages of growing
13th January 2013
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ARTS
Francis Spufford on Childhood books 1: Why fiction matters
Francis Spufford has gained a bit of a following for his recent Unapologetic – a quirky defence of Christianity which various bloggers have picked up
12th January 2013
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