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August 15, 2010

Seth Godin again (can’t help myself – just so much good stuff there), this time with a post called How big is your red zone? Does this snippet (worth reading the rest, as ever) remind you of anything? The first [pink part of the graph] shows how much joy someone gets out of an activity. [...]

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Who are we?

A year ago, we were limbering up to start our second service and – you may remember – circulated a survey, to find out which way people were thinking of jumping (morning or afternoon). We took the opportunity, at the same time, to ask two further questions that we’ve not (for some reason) got round [...]

Prayed for today

Just got notice via twitter that the Diocese of London is praying for us today in All Souls! Across the Diocese, churches pray for one another via a ‘cycle’ of prayer meaning that each parish is focused on once a year. We’ll be prayed for at particular services today in St Paul’s Cathedral and I’ve [...]

Fiery and Sweet

Ever since college, I’ve been drawn back repeatedly to the liturgy of Celebrating Common Prayer that comes out of the Society of Saint Francis. Here’s a wonderful prayer that stands as the Collect for Friday Midday prayer which I’ve just used to give a bit of ‘punctuation’ to an otherwise ‘messy’ day – I hope [...]

When winning the argument loses

Dilbert – as so often – hits a painful nail on the head with one of his long-running ‘Dilbert on a date’ gags: …a classic case of winning the argument (potentially), but (certainly) losing the relationship. None of us like to be wrong and simply telling people that what they believe is silly / unbelievable [...]


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