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Tag Archives: sparrows
At St John’s, Waterloo, May 2018
I was coming round the corner of the church last sunday when all of a sudden I saw two little birds on the tarmac in front of the condemned box hedge. I was amazed.They looked like sparrows. They were … Continue reading
sparrows, with footnotes in Bern.
I thought we had the situation under control. I saw myself, without being aware of it, in a priestly role, a guardian of the holy places which provided sanctuary for God’s creatures, a dozen or so surviving sparrows which flitted … Continue reading
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