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The Annunciation

Alastair — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:06:26 +0000

It’s 275 days to Christmas – or thanks to Irenaus who’s quick ‘nine months counting back from Christmas’ calculation called the 25 March The Feast of the Annunciation....

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Join us at the Cathedral

Alastair — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:36:30 +0000

Please come and join us at Southwark Cathedral on 14 April 2013. Alastair’s installation, along with Archdeacon colleagues Jane Steen and Chris Skilton, takes place at 3pm. The original...

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On the Lord’s Prayer

Alastair — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:56:54 +0000

I recently had to collect some prayers based around the Lord’s Prayer; some I sourced elsewhere, some I wrote myself. They are gathered together under the stanzas of the Prayer. Our Father, who...

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Spirit of Christmas – past?

Alastair — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:45:18 +0000

Lectionary and church diary purists hate it: that ‘Christmas nowadays appears to start in about October, and be over by Christmas Eve’, or certainly by Boxing Day. That’s not...

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Is this ChristChurch’s Christopher Wren moment?

Alastair — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:20:49 +0000

I’ve been visiting Christchurch for over 20 years, and love it’s iconic cathedral which dominates the horizon is such a prominent feature of the Cathedral Square. Or was. Until the first...

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Chocolate Nativity

Alastair — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:28:15 +0000

Last year, David Keen circulated a version of the Chocolate Nativity to folks looking for an idea for an all-age Christmas. As my local shops had a few different chocolates to the ones in the story...

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Twitter Mission

Alastair — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:21:04 +0000

Twitter. Facebook. Passing ‘Web 2.0’ fad, or useful tool? (expanded from an article written for Together magazine) Twitter is a ‘micro-blogging’ platform: like texts from your computer, or your...

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Pale-ist

Alastair — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:33:52 +0000

This post isn’t really about hair colour, but one of the things children with red hair have to get used to, is being called ‘ginger’. (Usually ‘Oi, Ginger’ – I...

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Lifestream

Alastair — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:04:34 +0000

A stream of my online social activity.

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Mind the Gap…

Alastair — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:27:11 +0000

I was asked to contribute a bit to the BBC Surrey & Sussex Sunday Breakfast programme presented by Gavin Ashenden, on some of the BBC’s current First Click initiative to help people use...

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