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It is obvious to anyone who gives the matter a moment’s thought that spirituality, God and our understanding of the universe are vastly different from what they were less than fifty years ago. It is interesting to explore those differences. How they have come about, what do they mean and to what do they point? […]

For many years I have been aware that my generation, today’s elderly grand-mothers, are an historical curiosity, a kind of bridge generation such as had never been seen before. Our childhood was spent under a firmly patriarchal regime then, when we had barely reached adulthood, everything changed. We found ourselves with one foot in our […]

John the Baptist, appealed to some people of the time as a far more remarkable character who seemed to step right out of the Old Testament looking, speaking and behaving like a proper prophet should. He was much admired and taken very seriously by the Jews in his day; he was even written up in […]