Thought for the Day
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Thought for the Day
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Vishvapani - A member of the Triratna Buddhist Order
Good morning.
The worse the news gets, the closer we come to some underlying questions. Epstein, Ukraine, climate change, geopolitics – you nam...
The Rev Canon Dr Rob Marshall
Places where strangers become friends
Good morning. The pub in Oxford last week looked its usual, amazing self. I’d been doing a bit of teaching...
Jayne Manfredi
“You’ve failed.”
Words spoken to me by a man with a clipboard, in a Renault Clio back in 1997. Failing my driving test seems trivial now, from t...
Bishop Richard Harries
Good morning. There is deep sadness in Tehran and other Iranian cities today as more that 2,500 dead are mourned and it appears that the regime is in...
Rev Dr Sam Wells
Good morning. Over New Year, two elite Premier League clubs decided being in the top six wasn’t good enough, and they needed a new manager. One of the...
Rev Dr Giles Fraser
The Bible doesn’t call them kings, nor that there were three of them. But tradition has come to call them kings, with their famous three gifts - gold...
Rev Canon Dr Jennifer Smith
Good morning. I have a sense today of a country in limbo, eking out the last days of holiday and anxious about what the new year will hold.
All...
Jayne Manfredi
T’was the week after Christmas, and all through the town
People were taking their lights and trees down
They’ve been up since November, no...
John Studzinski
Sooner than we know, New Year’s Eve has come round again. Will you be making the same old resolutions to make yourself feel better? Or could this be t...
Rhidian Brook
Good Morning,
‘Hark!’ ‘Do you hear what I hear?’ ‘They said there’d be snow this Christmas; they said there’d be peace on earth’ ‘Do they know...
Tim Stanley
Good morning. This year, for the first time, I've bought a real, 6-foot Christmas tree - and I hit the shops in search of baubles and tinsel.
Th...
John Studzinski
Over the next week or two – whatever your degree of vocal prowess or religious belief – you are likely to join in some form of communal singing.
Chine McDonald
Good morning,
This week, Wendy Dalrymple, Canon Pastor at Ripon Cathedral, shared on social media her experience of being in an abusive relation...
Dr Anna Rowlands - 01/12/2025
This morning, as many of us will, I’ll open the first door of my Advent calendar. I’m fascinated that this tradition has endured, even as much else ab...