Duncan Hollands

An inspired final choice

Only 3 days to go.

The Cost Of Reading Wendell Berry "Is it good?" is the question Wendell Berry constantly asks us. It's a question which demands a response.

Wendell Berry is one of the authors who has influenced my own writing the most - but there is a cost to reading him. And a significant one at that.
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.

We do ban kids from driving though?

Maybe banning smartphones is like trying to ban bikes?

A view across gently rolling hills butted with winter trees on a lightly snowy evening under luminous, yellow sky

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12
‘Evening Snow’
Artist: SR Badmin

I kinda feel like becoming Anglican is the logical endpoint of loving the Four Quartets. Eliots paen for the church of the soil... or something.

There's hope for evangelicals yet!

Does this count as your first theological book of the twenty?

By The Rev'd Ed Yates.

Why we need Advent: Christmas Commercialism “What’s going on with Black Friday this year?”, my wife asked me in Sainsbury’s the other week. We were walking past an advertising hoarding for some brand’s Black Friday deal. But it wasn’t Black …

I challenge you to find a better reflection on Advent.

Spoiler: you won't.

christandcalendar.com/2024/12/06/w...

Happy Feast of St Nicholas!

Love it. Thank you. Have forwarded.

In the article it almost sounds like 50% of bishops thought that articles were unnecessary! Not exactly in accord with your thesis.

Thank you. This is a great read.

If there were only two bishops at the 1785 convention and one of them thought that articles are superfluous, how many bishops were there in TEC at that time?

Not sure how you feel about giving your stuff out for free, but if you feel like DM'ing over any handouts/notes from that session it sounds very interesting!

“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.”

— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)

But it is available online at the British Library's website!

*Clicks*

"We are sorry but due to a cyber attack we are currently having difficulty with our online system..."

much love for the 'don't know' crew who must be wondering what that tree is doing in their living room

The smile is almost enough to make me want to take up knitting. A great gift.

Tim Suffield with an excellent reflection on what the work of a pastor really is, via 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑖𝑠𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠 .

It strikes me that in the C of E it's the theology bit where we most come unstuck.

Beautiful

What a difference twelve months makes!
... Twelve months, plus enormous grant, loads of donations (thank you), and a ferocious amount of work.

The scaffold came down at St Lawrence’s, Gumfreston, Pembrokeshire recently, and we could hardly believe our eyes.

1/4

Sounds great

"Part of what we do here every week is to reject the modern conceit that true freedom is freedom from having to bother too much with other people."

What a line. And the sermon only gets better from there!

A corker Gerry. Well done and thanks for posting.

Handily lots of them begin with M. Music, Morals, Mind, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Meaning.

Beauty is the awkward guest at the party.