I attended the funeral of Kenneth Stevenson today. Kenneth had been Anglican bishop of Portsmouth from 1995 to 2009. However, I knew Kenneth first when I was an undergraduate at Manchester University and he was the Anglican chaplain. I was a member of the university Christian Union, which in the UK is a conservative evangelical […]
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Now that’s what I call a woman!
Whilst away on a residential course last weekend, I read this amazing obituary of Concita Cintrón. She was a champion bullfighter from Mexico who moved to Spain after World War II. Her life would make an amazing film, especially if they could persuade Penélope Cruz to play the lead. I think I nearly fell in […]
The Royal Society and Creationism – did Reiss jump or was he pushed?
An interesting story currently featuring on the BBC website concerns the ‘decision’ by Professor Michael Reiss to stand down as the director of education of the Royal Society. This follows a minor controversy following his comments that creationism should be discussed in science lessons if a pupil raises the matter. The difficult is that I […]
Mary Sill: 24th November 1911 – 13th May 2008
Mary was one of the bright lights of the congregation at Cotham. Before the war, she had worked in haematology, seeing active service in the blood transfusion service working all over Europe with the Red Cross. In the mid-1960s she was admitted to the Order of Deaconesses. At that time, women in the Church of […]