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‘Quantum mechanics is not a door to vagueness, it’s the opposite.’
3rd July 2020

‘Quantum mechanics is not a door to vagueness, it’s the opposite.’

by Keith Braithwaite
‘It doesn’t form when all is running smoothly.’
3rd July 2020

‘It doesn’t form when all is running smoothly.’

by Gabrielle Scott
‘“Simon, son of John”, he said for the third time, “Are you my friend?”’  (John 21:17)
3rd July 2020

‘“Simon, son of John”, he said for the third time, “Are you my friend?”’  (John 21:17)

by Janet Scott
How do you “trust in the process” when you don’t know what the process is?
3rd July 2020

How do you “trust in the process” when you don’t know what the process is?

by Annie Holliday
‘It is not easy to be patterns and examples and walk cheerfully during this pandemic.’
3rd July 2020

‘It is not easy to be patterns and examples and walk cheerfully during this pandemic.’

by David Brown
‘The deaf community has a long, painful history of persecution.’
3rd July 2020

‘The deaf community has a long, painful history of persecution.’

by Kate Kernoff
Busily sculpting my foolish old life
3rd July 2020

Busily sculpting my foolish old life

by Anne M Jones
‘The tendency to over-analyse, to ruminate through long days and sleepless nights, is not helpful.’
26th June 2020

‘The tendency to over-analyse, to ruminate through long days and sleepless nights, is not helpful.’

by Helen Johnson
‘For me, being black is being afraid to leave a shop without buying anything.’
26th June 2020

‘For me, being black is being afraid to leave a shop without buying anything.’

by Bonnie Gibberd
‘The religious offer is not a consolation at all, but a call to ever greater vulnerability.’
26th June 2020

‘The religious offer is not a consolation at all, but a call to ever greater vulnerability.’

by Jonathan Wooding
‘In the end human rights are about people being treated and feeling like people who matter.’ (Qf&p)
26th June 2020

‘In the end human rights are about people being treated and feeling like people who matter.’ (Qf&p)

by Katrina McCrea
‘Our fundamental act of idolatry is to divide things for our own benefit.’
26th June 2020

‘Our fundamental act of idolatry is to divide things for our own benefit.’

by Paul Hodgkin
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