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The Flying Cassowary - a blog

Jan 75 min read
A New Year
Some personal reflections on change and innovation as a new year begins.
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Sep 8, 20224 min read
A Prophet without Honour
The funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev at the weekend truly represented the end of an era in European history. As a teenager growing up in the...
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Jul 17, 20224 min read
The better part?
How do you read the story of Mary and Martha as a neurodivergent person?
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Jul 12, 20222 min read
The mighty have fallen
Whilst Boris creates mayhem in Westminster, the people of Sri Lanka are taking things into their own hands.
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Oct 16, 20214 min read
My first love
I love TV! I feel guilty for saying it, but it's true. Growing up, I reckon I probably learned more from watching telly than I ever did...
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Jul 21, 20216 min read
Justice, Dignity and Solidarity
I am incredibly humbled that the new Methodist Strategy for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion has decided to use the formulation I...
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May 15, 20216 min read
Nakba
I have been called out. I spent some time yesterday trying to compose an instagram post about the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine...
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Jan 20, 20214 min read
Why I am a trade unionist
Yesterday, I was elected Vice President of the faith workers’ Branch of the Community trade union. I became a socialist before I became a...
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Jan 20, 20212 min read
This week's TRU
This week has been filled with pictures from Minneapolis and other US cities, after the violent and unnecessary death of George Floyd at...
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Jan 20, 20210 min read
What's next? - an ascension sermon
a sermon recorded for online worship in the South Warwickshire Methodist Circuit.
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Jan 20, 20213 min read
Tiananmen
This week is the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the centre of Beijing. Like most of us in 1989, I was captivated by...
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