Love Thy Neighbour
Know thy neighbour?
Friday, April 11th, 2008
I was out with friends last night and a man from Finland approached us, very friendly and just wanted to engage in conversation, something that I probably wouldn’t do but appears to be easier for others cultures to achieve.
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Happy Workers?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Do you think it would be better to be honest with people all of the time, instead of holding back or talking to others about a particular person when they are not around?
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The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie - Ann Landers
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Is it ever ok to lie? I realise there are certain occasions when we may have to do so to spare feelings and to not reveal the full truth to children about some of the ways of the world, but at the end of the day not telling the truth is considered wrong isn’t it?
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Collaring the cowards
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I have heard some strange suggestions before in relation to what members of the clergy should and shouldn’t do but the latest one by the National Churchwatch in England takes the cake.
The group, who provide personal safety advice, have stated that vicars should not wear dog collars when on duty because they increase the likelihood […]
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Spread the word around
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
It has been well documented as to the decrease in attendances for mass services in churches across England and Ireland. With that comes the news that some members are looking for ways to adapt modern thinking to old methods.
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Nobody ever said it was simple to be a man. If it were, more guys would try it. - Hugh O’Neill
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Whether we like to admit it or not we are all getting older. It’s one of the things that we do not have control of in our lives, normally you tend to find women are more vain about this change then men.
So it was with great interest to find a survey in Britain that showed […]
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Responsibility
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Being a teenager in recent times means being in the spotlight as the media seem to have taken it upon themselves to highlight a lack of morals and rule breaking from them.
It is shocking when you consider the acts that have taken place and those that are said to have committed them, but maybe we […]
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Try (Just a little bit harder)
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Protests seem to be everywhere in the news recently. With the demonstration at Heathrow Airport fresh in our minds, I wonder how we view those that take such a stand against the things they believe are unjust.
Thousands of people set up the ‘Climate Camp’ to protest plans for a third runway. Many of these campaigners […]
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To celebrate or to mourn?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
I had to go to a funeral service today and as I watched the mourning friends and family in the church; subsequently in the graveyard and the reception, a thought struck me. How are we actually meant to act, apart from respectful, during a funeral?
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Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Society is constantly changing but it amazes me that the levels of gang attacks, mostly teenagers, appear to have risen to a state of chaos.
The recent in Warrington on a 47 year old father of three is the tip of the iceberg and should not be taken lightly. Gary Newlove confronted a group of youths who […]
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