Archive for November, 2018

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• Wormholes and tunnels 8 December 2018
  The main topics of conversation at our Neoinklings literary coffee klatsch this month was two literary tropes evident in Alan Garner’s early books and several others — first, the boundary between different worlds, and secondly, underground tunnels. Concerning other worlds, there are writers like Tolkien, who set his main stories entirely in another world of […]
• Racism and Prejudice 3 December 2018
  The other day I came across a question on Quora: What is the difference between a black man and a white man? How would you answer that question? I thought about it for a while, and looked at the other answers that had been given. None of them seemed satisfactory. Eventually I wrote an answer […]
• St Paul’s Theological College 1968 (Part 3) 1 December 2018
  Continued from Part 2 After 10 days at St Paul’s I was beginning to get the hang of the place, and to make comparisons with St Chad’s College in Durham, where I had spent two years. I was also relishing the freedom to study whatever interested me without the pressure of having to prepare for […]
• St Paul’s Theological College 1968 (Part 2) 29 November 2018
  Continued from Part 1 The first week of life at St Paul’s was all new to me, and after that I began to get used to the routine, so I’ll describe the first week in more detail. Tuesday 6th October 1968. Mattins and Mass were in Afrikaans (that was part of the Tuesday routine). It […]
• St Paul’s Theological College 1968 (Part 1) 28 November 2018
  In October and November 1968 I spent a term at St Paul’s Theological College in Grahamstown, South Africa. Since it was 50 years ago, some of those who were students at the college back then are holding a reunion with the then warden of the college, Canon John Suggit, who is also celebrating the 70th […]