A matter of wind

In the days of lockdown one of our pastors thought Philippians would be a good place to be. Lockdown proved to be longer than that, so where then do you go? To that great and exciting book of reflections, the book of the wind or breath, no, not the Acts of the Apostles but the preaching of the Preacher, Ecclesiastes. PeteT asked for a profile, but what does a profile matter now? Three years ago it did a little; ten years it was worth something; twenty, thirty years ago surely it was something which we polished up now and again. The Preacher reflected: it was all wind or heavy breathing.

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Slaver’s statues and statutes

It was with dismay that Coco read of the act by some the pulling down and littering of the harbour in Bristol with the statue of Edward Colston. Coco cannot support or in any way endorse such actions or the removal of statues to such men in this way, however neither does Coco endorse slavery in any of its forms whether ancient or modern.

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