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Layer upon layer: the Church of the Nativity
One feature of many of the churches in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories was that sense of decoration having been applied layer upon layer over decades and centuries. In contrast to the...
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Kitsch & Camp in Bethlehem
Having given you a political post and a holy one on Bethlehem, I couldn’t really leave it without sharing these, taken around Shepherd’s Fields, where – yup, you got it – the Shepherds are...
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Clerical Fashion Crimes
Now that I have a curacy agreed, I’m having to start giving some thought to what it will be like to be out there in the “real” world again, beyond the ivory towers of academia. To put it another way, I...
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On passing milestones and succumbing to temptation
I passed a bit of a milestone this weekend. After a horrific week (essay deadlines are like buses – for weeks you have none and then several come all at once), I handed in 2 of my last 3 essays for the...
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