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Pause for Peace

EARLY in his book ‘The God Delusion,’ Richard Dawkins asserts that religion is the cause of most wars; a claim supported volubly by fellow...

Pause for Lent

NOT having been brought up in a family that followed the religious calendar, I always thought Lent had something to do with borrowing and...

Pause for thought in stormy weather

OUR television screens have lately been filled with pictures of the impact of storms back home in Britain, with trees uprooted, power lines cut...

Pause for thought at Christmas

CHRISTMAS already! Hardly seems possible, yet here we are in last minute preparation, checking everything’s ready for a bumper celebration. But what, I often wonder,...

Rising above the wreckage

144 years ago a major disaster occurred mid Atlantic, when the Ville du Havre en route from New York to Britain collided with another...

Advent Pause for Thought

“Anything that can go wrong, probably will go wrong at the worst possible moment.” And the truth of “Murphy’s Law”, to use its polite...