St Mary's Church – Lymm

Dear friends,Imagine an Anglican Church riven with conflicts, in which the Low Church party was making increasingly strident demands of the ruling body, determined to extend its power and influence.  No, it’s not the Anglican Church of 2011 in its upheavals over homosexuality.  The year is 1611,
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Dear friends,I wish you a happy New Year.  Or, as we might soon be saying, I wish you a high rating in your felicific calculus.  For our level of happiness is, according to the government, something which the Office for National Statistics is soon to measure in its survey of households.  Strictly
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Dear friends,Many of us at this time of year will have an Advent calendar.  Its twenty-four windows mark the countdown to Christmas, and we’re supposed to open one window each day, to build a sense of expectation as Christmas Eve draws nearer.  If you have young children or grandchildren, you might
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Dear friends,You might remember the scene in ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ where two Palestinian would-be revolutionaries are listing grievances about the occupying Romans.  One says to the other ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’  Silence follows, then slowly they begin to identify
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