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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
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Happy New Year from all at FBC. We hope you had a great Christmas and wish you all the best for 2008.
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Written by Graham Robinson
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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In many schools and pre-schools there has been a trend away from telling the Christmas story from a Christian perspective. It’s not always a total re-write. Sometimes it is just a fusion of a motley collection of ideas and images, such as I remember seeing a few years ago when my grandchildren were younger. The nativity story was surrounded (swamped?) by the story of a local sheep fair that had existed for several centuries, starting back in the Middle Ages. True, the shepherds and animals were well represented and there were even a few wise men lurking in the background, but they were vastly outnumbered by representations of local craftsmen and sellers of all manner of local produce (who will buy my lovely flowers?), strolling players and minstrels, knights in town for the jousting, falconers and the nobility decked out in period costume – and even a mermaid (my granddaughter), though I’m still confused as to how a mermaid got past the auditions.
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Written by Graham Robinson
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
We are in the season of contrasts. The weather is deteriorating but the
trees possibly look their best, showing off a huge range of different
colours (until the leaves all fall off!). The succession of gloomy days
are often broken by days of brilliant sunshine – but the temporary
warmth of the sun quickly turns to bitter cold, the dampness to frost.
Even in our festivals there is stark contrast. I find it odd that on
October 31st people want to celebrate ghosts, ghouls, zombies, witches
and goblins roaming the earth (Halloween or All Hallows Eve). But the
day following, All Saints day, is a celebration of the lives of people
we have valued and appreciated, but who have now died. So much of the
time the good sits close to the not so good.
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Written by Graham Robinson
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
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In your imagination can you take yourself back to the days of the Wild West with cowboys and Indians hurtling around the dusty plains. The local sheriff was riding along the trail and suddenly came upon an Indian, motionless, lying flat on the ground with his ear pressed to the earth. The Indian called out, “Wait – wagon - two miles off - drawn by two horses, one black, the other grey. Four people on board: man in a red flannel shirt, his wife, and two kids.”
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