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Posted on November 3, 2018November 27, 2018

“In any family, taking the suffering for others, or being willing to suffer because of the suffering of others, is absolutely irresponsible if it enables others to avoid facing their own suffering!” – Edwin Friedman

I keep coming back to this post by DeForest London – “A Way Out of Burnout: Cultivating Differentiated Leadership Through Lament”. I originally reposted it on my other blog, A…

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Posted on October 17, 2018

“Hugging the cactus”

I came across this phrase in a video of Robert Downey Jr receiving the American Cinematheque Award  in 2011. Downey Jr had requested Mel Gibson present the award and went on…

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Posted on August 25, 2018August 25, 2018

Emma Holland on the resurgent popularity of pilgrimage

On the website Thinking Faith, Emma Holland has an interesting piece on the resurgence of popularlity of pilgrimage. I’ve blogged a lot here about Peter Reason’s “In Search of Grace” a book which is…

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Posted on July 12, 2018

The wisdom of silence

Adam de Ville has a particularly good post on Eastern Christian Books on Terry Eagleton’s book on sacrifice. This is an especially rich post covering a range of topics… but…

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Posted on May 23, 2018May 15, 2018

Simon Jacobson on “honouring thy father and thy mother”

The commandment to “honour thy father and thy mother” is one that, one would like to hope, is usually relatively straightforward. Many of us (most of us?) can fairly easily…

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Posted on February 4, 2018

“the vulgar and rather infantile things you really do want” – Adam deVille on prayer and psychoanalysis

I have linked before to Eastern Christian Books, the blog of Adam de Ville. One of deVille’s recurrent themes is the unnecessary and unhelpful perceived antagonism between psychoanalysis and religion..…

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Posted on January 20, 2018January 20, 2018

“Mental health apps offer a head start on recovery” – Irish Times, 18/01/18

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Here is a piece by Sylvia Thompson on a recent First Fortnight panel discussion I took part in on apps in mental health. Dr…

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Posted on October 29, 2017October 29, 2017

“The World Is Everything That Is The Case” – a sentence analysed by Jeff Dolven

From The Paris Review: In our new eight-part series, Life Sentence, the literary critic Jeff Dolven will take apart and put back together one beloved or bedeviling sentence every week.…

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