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Orthodox Crossing: Heads You Win, Tails You Lose…

Posted on 13 June 2026 by JBowe

We all come with gripes, don’t we. Wages. Car tax. War. Rumours of war which we started. Strimming on a hot day at work, which is probably worse than all of the above. We’ve all been there and wagered on

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Orthodox Crossing: Musical Context

Posted on 21 March 2026 by JBowe

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. That was from that song but the sentiment is probably unrealistic, and you might even say perhaps a little sinister. I might even close my curtains. There, I’ve done that

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Orthodox Crossing: Bookworming

Posted on 12 November 2025 by JBowe

Recently my wife Anna took upon herself clerical duties for our church. Good for her as she loves a bit of trouble shooting mixed with a skeleton key for nosing around. It also means that I get to hear about

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Orthodox Crossing: Being Useful

Posted on 13 April 2025 by JBowe

Where does one begin, when you start looking at it? I mean that in no way to be some pervasive effort at a meaningful thought, but rather that I was looking at a pernicious shrub outside the entrance to our

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Orthodox Crossing: Reliquary and Me

Posted on 20 July 2023 by JBowe

I am not a big one for digging, generally, but then I garden for what I earn so I am digging for a lot of the time. And when I am, I find things; dirt, bits of old pottery, a

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Orthodox Crossing: An Already Nostalgia

Posted on 10 June 2023 by JBowe

‘I used to do the bins around here,’ I said to my 11 year old daughter as we made a steady approach towards the serpentine village of Pen-y-Bont-Fawr; a passing on our way to St Melangell’s Church. My daughter took

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Orthodox Crossing: Young Joseph

Posted on 28 April 2023 by JBowe

During the passing of the ambient sun of Lazarus Saturday, the lovingly be-haired Young Joseph was baptised through our church into the ever-loving mystery of Christ’s salvation. Joseph Llewellyn-Jones had been attending church and catechumen classes from before my family

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