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29 October 2016 in Jenny's Blog
Home and away
If you are a fan of British comedy, you will no doubt recall that memorable episode of Fawlty Towers, when Basil, the crazed Torquay hotel-keeper played by John Cleese, welcomes some German guests. The more Basil tries not to mention the war, the more obsessed with it he becomes, until after a bump on […]
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29 May 2016 in Jenny's Blog
The glittering prizes
The first time I missed out on promotion (a type of prize, I guess), a wise old academic said to me that it was always tempting to reject a system that had rejected you. It’s a fair point. Any committee that selects oneself, shows startling sagacity. One that does not, is necessarily dominated by […]
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3 October 2015 in Jenny's Blog
The nature of healing
Having injured my shoulder while travelling a few months back, I find myself contemplating the nature of healing. While at the time, the degree of pain was not severe, it turned out that, in this case, a relative lack of pain was not such a good sign. Tests revealed that I had torn the labrum […]
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23 September 2015 in Jenny's Blog
Finding the spirit
I was talking to some friends the other day about spiritual discipline – not the sort that involves self-mortification – but the kind of practice that enables us to communicate within, and without. Reading William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience has been a great help to me in understanding a sensible religious perspective on this. […]
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20 May 2015 in Jenny's Blog
Unfashionable Christianity
To end up as a Christian is to swim against the Australian tide. Most of my contemporaries have, with varying degrees of relief, jettisoned religion. I respect their reasons for doing so. But my experience may, possibly, suggest a way back.
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29 April 2015 in Jenny's Blog
Finding your place
I have never known an organisation that would not have been improved by a few well-judged changes. Not, I hasten to add, re-structurings or purges, just the addition of a bit of common sense to the pot pourri of accepted practice.
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