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CW79: RAF100

In 2018 the Royal Air Force celebrates its 100th birthday. Up and down the country there are links between churches and former airfields but standing in a quiet church now…

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CW79: ‘Remember Me’

‘Do this to remember me.’ Jesus at his last meal with his friends (Luke 22:19) ‘Jesus, remember me when you enter your kingdom.’ An anonymous thief a few hours later…

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CW79: Remembering our routes

In a recent BBC Radio Scotland broadcast, Martin Palmer of the Alliance for Religions and Conservation commented that ‘Every major religion has seen an increase in pilgrims of between 200…

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CW79: Remembering Ryton

A World War 1 German officer and a British ‘Tommy’ inch towards each other across No Man’s Land, hands nervously outstretched as an offer of friendship. Other men and boys…

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CW79: We Shall Remember Them

Commemorating the centenary of the end of the Great War in rural communities Annual services of Remembrance are often significant occasions in rural communities. As our nation marks the centenary…

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CW79: All gave some, but some gave all

John’s gospel contains these words: ‘Greater love has no-one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends’. This verse has been interpreted in many ways but it is…

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CW79: Dulce et Decorum Est?

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in…