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To forgive is divine
Published: 3rd Nov 2012
I WAS woken up at 6am, one Wednesday morning, by a distress call from my mother.
I could tell by her voice on the phone that she was distraught. She told me that she had just been released from the hospital. A few weeks earlier she had been beaten up by four women in a local park.
Some background: my mum has spent the past seven years homeless, or as near as, and involved with...
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Baptised at 77
Published: 3rd Jun 2012
DEFYING the stereotype of a quiet old lady, at 77 years old, Pam Selmes was born again and now has people at her house "all the time".
Pam was born in Derbyshire, but her father worked with the railway so the family moved around a lot. "My mother never minded moving," she recalls.
Her family brought her up as a Quaker, so Pam was born as a "birthright...
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Your face fits
Published: 1st Jan 2012
IT'S FOR every kind of person, posh, poor, rich, skilled, unskilled, super brain, not-so-clever, black, yellow, pinky-white, brown, young, old, sound-minded, those with mental health difficulties, ne'r-do-wrongs, criminals, straights, gays and so on and on.
What is it? It's the church of Jesus.
Maybe you see the church as a place of prejudice, Christians as...
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Where's dad?
Published: 30th Sep 2011
FIFTEEN per cent of UK babies are born into homes with no resident dad. Half of them have no registered father on their birth certificate.
Family breakdown affects many more children, spearheaded by rising numbers of unmarried parents. By a child's fifth birthday, a shocking 43 per cent of cohabiting parents have separated. In the vast majority of split families, children stay with...
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Bullying
Published: 16th May 2011
I'LL TELL you what makes me angry, what makes me really angry. Seeing children at school get bullied, for no reason. For the colour of their hair, the colour of their skin or eyes, for freckles, for their size and shape, because they're clever, or because they're not, or the clothes they're wearing that day.
It doesn't seem to matter what the reason is, they'll...
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