My house is an orchids' graveyard. They come and go, usually turning to mush because I overwatered or underwatered, or this wasn’t right or that wasn’t perfect. These pretty but fussy little flowers just do not thrive in my home.
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The Church of St Martin, Ludgate, in London, is one of the least spoiled of the capital’s Christopher Wren churches, according to John Leonard in London’s Parish Churches. Sure enough, the place was characterised by lots of dark-stained wood, white paint and oiled canvasses around the altar. It is certainly attractive, though of its time.
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We have more saints' days than fools’ days, but there are far more fools than saints.
The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
-Psalm 53:1
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Longholme Methodist Church in Rawtenstall has to be one of the grandest chapels in Lancashire, externally, at least. Its own website says little, but it warrants a Wikipedia page which dates it back to 1842.
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St Agatha’s Church at Easby, North Yorkshire, is a crooked, irregular little building. It sits in the shadow, literally, of Easby Abbey, that imposingly beautiful ruin. The little parish church survived Henry Tudor's Reformation because it served the community, unlike, it was supposed, the high and mighty monks next door.
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Walking through London’s Battersea Park, one passes a rather incongruous Japanese Buddhist pagoda. It was given to the people of London by the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order as part of the former Greater London Council's 1984 Peace Year.
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Yarrow Kirk is a quaint little parish church in the old Scottish county of Selkirkshire. It was built in that most turbulent of centuries, and its most turbulent of decades, the 1640s; it was the worst of times, it was the best of times. Without its walls are various graves and memorials to past ministers, including that to ‘James Thomson, shepherd’:
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Note for new readers. Contrary to what a few uncharitable folk have asserted, this Open Air Newsletter is not some sort of vanity project, but is written at our pastor’s request. Its purpose is to keep the church up to date with what happens during our Wednesday Open Air in Manchester, and to enable those who will to pray for this weekly outreach.
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