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“…if we were to imagine our Diocese, or national Church, as a forest…what kind of forest would we imagine ourselves to be? Would there be many kinds of trees offering different flowers and fruit – or the monoculture of a single tree species?” asks Bishop Cam Venables
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“Simply getting together and holding space for each other in the course of our Advent devotional journey has been restorative, enabling us to reconcile and make peace within ourselves,” says The Rev’d Deb Bird on her ecumenical Advent prayer group
“In the distant past when I was at theological college, I remember being told that most clergy are introverts – one of God’s little jokes. This means that our feelings can be buried deep and difficult for us to articulate, let alone understand or untangle,” says The Rev’d Canon Dr Marian Free
St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School chaplain The Rev’d Gillian Moses shares what she and her school community learnt from a former headmistress
“Parish congregations have traditionally been communities gathered around a parish priest. The impacts of COVID-19 have shone a light on the limitations of this model,” says The Rev’d Owen Strong
“When I was 15 years of age, I decided that I wanted nothing more to do with the Church…The Rector of that parish would sometimes refer to me from the pulpit as ‘that angry young man in the fifth row’. Some years later I was invited to preach at Fr David’s funeral and would credit him, in part, for fostering my vocation,” says Bishop Jeremy Greaves
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