Blue Truck, Red State: Two Churches, One Town

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Two Churches, One Town

Today I discovered just by chance this mini-documentary of two beautiful 900-year-old churches in a lovely little English town - and the struggle to keep them from falling into ruin. The high-definition videography is wonderful.

You can learn more at the website Two Churches, One Town.

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2 comments:

Davis said...: That's gorgeously produced. We have visited the minster at Beverly and St Mary's nearby. The minster is my favorite early building in the UK and I prayers at the tomb of St John there. Nice tea shop nearby as well.

You may be interested in the Youtube channel of my friend Allan Barton who's wonderfully erudite and entertaining - his channel is called The Antiquary and he cover things churchly and royal. I think you'd enjoy it.; April 1, 2023 at 12:55 PM
Russ Manley said...: I never heard of these churches before I stumbled upon this video, but they are lovely. There are so many old churches in England now with dwindling or extinct congregations, a real preservation problem.

Thanks so much for the tip about The Antiquary channel - I've subscribed - Barton's videos are marvelous. He's got a whole slew of them about the many historical details of English coronations that I'll be working my way through in the coming days. Fascinating!

I do hope the Coronation goes smoothly and happily.; April 4, 2023 at 1:17 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu