Real Prayer

I did a public prayer for the first time in ages recently and it was weird.  Weird in the sense that there are certain factors that you consider when you do a public prayer that you might not consider in a private closet prayer.  In as much as it’s a prayer to God on behalf […]

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Never Going Back?

It should be fairly clear by now that moving from Stoke-on-Trent to Little Hulton at the end of 2009 physically (although there’s an argument that I’d left before then) was very traumatic.  The difficulty of the transitional stage of working in Stoke-on-Trent whilst living in Little Hulton in January was a mental strain more than […]

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First Contact

Recently I was celebrating the birthday of my dear old mother and I do mean ‘dear’, and I do mean ‘mother’ and I do mean … So I was on about her and in reflecting the significant role she plays in my life since the beginning I recalled again that she was the first contact […]

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For My Mum

What kind of son am I?  Not a good one, evidently.  Here we have the nerve centre for the online thinking and blogging on everything to do with the life of Christopher Dryden  There are blogs regaling my brother, there are blogs regaling my sister, there are blogs regaling my father, there are blogs regaling […]

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Friend Of Sinners

It’s a Friday night and that usually means time to wind down and prepare to celebrate, embrace and enjoy another Sabbath. As I do so, however I reflect on some interesting social encounters of late.  As I reflect on them the label they applied to Jesus springs to mind about him being ‘a friend of […]

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