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Friendship Files: Someone old, someone new, someone borrowed, nobody blue.

Community, Inspiration, Posts / By Activate Team Member

The theme of friendship has popped up everywhere I look over the last couple of weeks: A Woman’s Hour interview highlighting the absence of close friendships for men; an author discussing her new book about a friendship break-up, a Sunday magazine article about lifetime friends; a TV phone-in about falling out with a friend; […]

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Get Halloween Done

Community, Inspiration, Posts / By Rachel Allcock

The 31st October looms ahead of us. For a while, the date has coincided with another event of national importance, confusion, and bafflement. In a week’s time, the mountain of rotting pumpkins we’ll see overflowing in tips, and tipping the lids of black bins, will provide a visual metaphor for my personal opinions on this

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Keep this… not that! Part 3

Inspiration, outreach, Posts / By Rachel Allcock

I think I need some form of accountability in order to make a proper job of this spiritual decluttering. Don’t we all do a better job of tidying up when we know we’ve got someone coming over? The downstairs playroom/office remains a clutter magnet until I know it needs to turn into a spare room.

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The Little Withington Angels : Building community with intention

Community, Dangerous Women, outreach / By Guest Post

The Little Withington Angels: Building community with intention Moving to a new neighbourhood in 2015 filled us with excitement. It was heartbreaking to leave old neighbours – now friends – behind to start all over again. This time it was with a child in tow who was due to start at a new school but

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Solitude > Community > Ministry > Repeat >

Community, Inspiration / By Rachel Allcock

I’m not sure I’m happy about this time of year. Just as I had the kids’ summer clothes figured out, they now need trousers and boots. I’m still tripping over toiletries and suncream and empty suitcases from our beach holiday, yet I’m stomping off to Christmas planning meetings and inappropriately sandal-clad conker-collecting expeditions. I missed

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