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Posts from October 2018

Valuing and Using Our Religious Liberty

Last week brought a wonderful moment for those of us worried about religious liberty in the UK as the Asher family (the bakers) from Northern Ireland, were cleared of discrimination after refusing to decorate a cake with the slogan “support gay marriage.” If you saw any of the interviews the family gave afterwards, I’m sure, like me, you would have been impressed…

Learning to Trust

It was a beautiful and bright day in early September 1992.  We had completed our training and the time had come to put it into practice. The aeroplane taxied and took off and soon we were being given our final briefing. We knew the drill. We had practised it on the ground. But although I knew what I should do, that isn’t…

Playing as a Team…

Last weekend saw one of the world’s greatest sporting events as the Ryder Cup took place just outside Paris.  Golf is usually a solitary sport, each golfer versus the rest, but the Ryder cup is very much a team sport: 12 of Europe’s finest playing against 12 from the USA.  (If you didn’t see it – Europe won, very convincingly!) Apart from…