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On 10th December 2024 everything stopped - I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 44. Here we are, and at the time of writing, I'm 2/3 of the way through chemo (to shrink the cancer before surgery) and getting appointments in place for the next phase. I&
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First question. Why would a person desire to kill a beautiful, majestic creature like this. Why would they spend £32,000 in order to be able to kill it. Why would skinning it and taking its head be important. How can we even begin to understand such behaviour from our
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Although it's poor style to start with an 'incidentally'... It was odd when I googled the above phrase to discover (having sung it as part of the Messiah but somehow omitted to properly pay attention) that the sheep are not those who blindly follow, but those
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Something which often preoccupies me is how an atheist (like me) can fully engage with and experience art which is inspired by religious faith. That's not to say I don't think it's possible, as in fact I think rather the opposite. But defining how
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I found an interesting story when I was looking up Hans Christian Andersen in response to a post about scary French children's stories on Facebook). It's The Story of a Mother. Here is the summary on wikipedia, which is pared down but still moving, and here