Rector's Letter: Ponder Anew

Dear friends,How do religions begin in the first place?  Not by clever theologians producing lists of doctrines for the faithful to believe, nor by moralists producing codes of ethical behaviour.   Religions begin with experiences which are then reflected on, interpreted and shared with others. 
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Rector’s Letter: Ponder Anew

Dear friends,How do religions begin in the first place?  Not by clever theologians producing lists of doctrines for the faithful to believe, nor by moralists producing codes of ethical behaviour.   Religions begin with experiences which are then reflected on, interpreted and shared with others. 
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Rector's Letter: True repentance

Dear friends,Nobody much today reads Etienne de La Boetie’s work ‘On Voluntary Servitude’.  Yet there was a time when this treatise – little more than a student essay dashed off by a sixteen-year-old in the 1550s amidst the French Wars of Religion- was the hottest book in Europe.  Even in modern
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Rector’s Letter: True repentance

Dear friends,Nobody much today reads Etienne de La Boetie’s work ‘On Voluntary Servitude’.  Yet there was a time when this treatise – little more than a student essay dashed off by a sixteen-year-old in the 1550s amidst the French Wars of Religion- was the hottest book in Europe.  Even in modern
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