Tag: Places

Faith for Holy Places

HOLY places were scarce in my earliest experience of Christianity. The Congregational Church in Newquay, where my family worshipped, was not somewhere to light a candle or pop in to pray on a weekday. In any case, it was…

Faith for Holy Places

FEW expect to find God in Cannes. A new handbag, perhaps. A suntan, for sure. An indefinable sense of having paid rather too much for an indifferent meal — well, that goes with the territory. But the glamorous resort on the…

Faith for Holy Places

OVERNIGHT, I became disabled, seriously: tetraplegic. For the first few months after such a drastic spinal injury, it is a question of survival. Then, the challenge of “rehab” dawns. Initially, it seems a simple target: to be…

Faith for Holy Places

THE great medieval abbeys of Yorkshire are a well-kept secret. As a southerner, I had no inkling of them until, having made a mid-career move to far North Yorkshire and landed in a village midway between Harrogate and Ripon,…

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