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Canon Andrew Pearson on Christian conscience and the law, profile of David Banks, eulogy to Anthony Howard, Fr Gareth inEgypt, SMA School’s new dining hall and fluffy Easter Bunnies!

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Vicar’s Voice – the Rev’d Canon Andrew Pearson

Holy Week: the origins of the Easter Bunny, by Barbara Want

Parish Directory

A profile of David Banks by Barbara Want

Eulogy to Anthony Howard by Robert Harris

The next chapter of the Book Club, from Barbara Hensman

Fr Gareth Wardell in Egypt

The New Dining Hall at SMA School. Reports from

headmistress Nicola Doyle, Year 6 pupils Charlie Rhodes and

Grace MacIlwain, and Year 2 pupil Lola Stadlen (and friends).

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What are we to make of recent

legal judgements which state

that, under the Equality Law, the

rights of one minority “should take prece-

dence” over that of another? So the judges

said in the recent John’s case. If you ask

why they ‘should take precedence’, rather

than carry equal weight, the answer the

judges gave was as follows:– “Our society

is now pluralistic and largely secular. We

sit as secular judges serving a multicultural

community of many faiths. The Laws and

usages of the realm do not include

Christianity, in whatever form. The apho-

rism that “Christianity is part of the

Common Law of England” is mere rhetoric.

If that were true all the more reason, one

suggests, for the judges to protect the con-

sciences of such a minority. But is it true?

History records the major influences which

the Christians faith and Christian people

have had upon our nation, making it so

attractive to others:– the rule of law, our

parliamentary democracy, our institutions,

our trade unions, our social welfare and

moraes, our scientific revolution, and sup-

port for freedom. So one is bound to ask

“when was it that Parliament decided that

our society is now ‘largely secular’, or that

our judges, once ‘secular judges’, or that

the ‘Law and usage of the realm do not

include Christianity in whatever form?’”

The answer, of course, is that Parliament

has never so decided, it is our judges who

have so decided, and at a time when the

majority of British people call themselves

Christians. Their case rests not upon a body

of evidence but upon their personal opin-

ion. In effect we have a small group of

judges ignoring the will of Parliament by

reinventing the social and historical context

in which they apply the Law, so that it

chimes with their secular prejudices.

This follows last year’s judgement in the

Court of Appeal in the McFarlane case,

where Lord Justice Laws said:– “The con-

ferment of any legal protection upon a par-

ticular moral position, on the ground that it

is espoused by the adherents of a particular

faith, however long its tradition, however

rich its culture, is deeply unprincipled.”

Presumably this would apply to all

Quakers, who, in time of war, have, for

hundreds of years, been conscientious

objectors. In many cases they have served

with distinction as medical personnel, even

in the front line. Personally I disagree with

the pacifist conscience but I much admire

and respect it. Likewise I disagree with Mr.

McFarlane’s conscience on gay relation-

ships, but I certainly respect it. I would

argue that such consciences like that of

Christian doctors unable to perform an

abortion, are, in fact, deeply principled, and

that what is deeply unprincipled, illiberal

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Vicar’s Voice

Canon Andrew Pearson of Christ Church on the Judges and the Christian Conscience


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yand intolerant, is to make no allowance in

Law for the religious consciences of mem-

bers of our society.

To make matters worse Lord Justice

Laws also said:-

“The promulgation of Law for the pro-

tection of a position held purely on reli-

gious grounds cannot be justified. It is irra-

tional, as preferring the subjective over the

objective. But it is also divisive, capricious

and arbitrary”. He added that “in the eye of

everyone, save the believer, religious faith

is necessarily subjective, being incommuni-

cable by any kind of proof or evidence”.

These remarks prompted the former Bishop

of Rochester, Bishop Nazir Ali, to wonder

if the learned judge had heard of such great

minds as those of Augustine, Aquinas,

Erasmus, Newton, Boyle and many others.

By their ability to articulate the Christian

faith in an objective and communicative

way, they have

been among the

principle intel-

lectual architects

of our western

civilization.

Moreover one is

also provoked to

ask, a little

cheekily, if the

Lord Justice of

Appeal is entire-

ly familiar with

the legal standard of proof, which is that of

proving ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, or ‘on

the balance of probability’, and not with

absolute certainty, not beyond doubt. For

there is a considerable body of proof, or

evidence, available to any unprejudiced

mind, which, to great thinkers and ordinary

people alike, proves ‘beyond reasonable

doubt’ the essential rationality, objectivity,

consistency, unifying force and communi-

cability of the Christian faith.

Perhaps most alarming of all was the

advocacy by Lord Justice Laws of what

amounts to a complete divorce between the

divine basis of Law and the Law of the

land. For the logical outcome of such a

position is that there is no higher legal and

moral authority than the State. Whatever

the State decides must be right, for the

State is all. And that, of course, is totalitar-

ianism. Under such a system all truth is

relative. What the State decides today it can

undecide tomorrow. How like communism

which, as Solzhenitsyn wrote out of bitter

experience, “has never concealed the fact

that it rejects all absolute concepts of

morality. Depending upon circumstances,

any act, including mass slaughter, may be

good or bad, it all depends upon the State’s

ideology, as defined by a handful of people

at any given time.”

In His teaching on the Sabbath, and on

other moral questions, Jesus summoned his

generation to return to the Diving purpose

in creation and to the Divine basis of law.

Our genera-

tion needs to

understand that

the road down

which we are

heading is

towards a rela-

tivist, arbitrary,

capricious and

divisive kind of

law, based on

no higher

authority that

the subjective views of the contemporary

makers and interpreters of that law. This

road does not lead to freedom. It leads to

slavery.

It was Shakespeare’s Hamlet who said:

“The play’s the thing, in which to catch

the conscience of the King”. Our Court

of Appeal seems to be saying “The Law’s

the thing, in which to crush the conscience

of the Christian”.


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Holy W

eek

The Easter Bunny –Holy Chocolate orWholly Chocolate?

There’s no story in the Bible about a

rabbit which hides eggs in the gar-

den, yet the Easter Bunny has a big

role on the day we remember that Jesus

rose from the dead.

Here are a few things about the Easter

Bunny that you may not know…

Bunnies, chicks and eggs were pagan sym-

bols.

Their role in celebrations can be traced

back to pre-Christian Germany, when the

Teutonic deity Eostre was the goddess of

Spring and fertility. Her symbol was the

rabbit because rabbits breed like errrr…

rabbits. Eggs too were an ancient symbol of

fertility and of the new life that comes with

Spring.

Feasts were held in honour of Eostre on the

Spring Equinox, the 21st March.

The pagan festival occurred at the same

time of year as the observance of the resur-

rection of Christ. As Christianity spread

and the festival became Christian it took

the name Eostre and eventually became

Easter.

The Easter Bunny legend was first docu-

mented in the 1500s and stories emerged

later of Easter bunnies laying eggs in the

garden.

A tradition arose of making nests for the

eggs and these soon became colourful bas-

kets. Children believed the Easter Bunny

would leave them eggs if they were good.

The Easter bunny was introduced to the

United States by German settlers in the

18th century and became known there as

the Spring Bunny.

The first edible Easter eggs were made in

Germany during the early 19th century and

were made of pastry and sugar. Chocolate

soon followed.

In 1873 the first mass-produced Cadburys

Easter Eggs were made in this country.

According to one survey 76% of people

prefer to eat the ears of a chocolate Easter

bunny before any other part.

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Clergy, wardens, vestry and office

Parish Directory

ST MARY ABBOTS

The Rev’d Gareth Wardell (Associate Vicar)

020 7937 2364 [email protected]

Non-Stipendiary Ministers The Rev’d Rob Marshall 020 7937 2259

The Rev’d Peter Stubbs 020 8868 8296

Deputy Churchwardens

Carole-Anne Phillips 020 7937 3448, Thomas Williams 07768 166 422

Director of Music Mark Uglow Contact via Vestry

St Mary Abbots Vestry

George MacAllan 020 7937 5136 [email protected]

St Mary Abbots Centre

Terry Pritchard (Manager) 020 7937 8885 [email protected]

Stewardship Secretary Simon Baker 020 7937 2203

Children on Sunday Lesley Bilinda [email protected]

Friends of St Mary Abbots Steven Atack (Chairman) 020 7402 1531

St Mary Abbots Bellringers Rachel Titmuss (Secretary) [email protected]

CHRIST CHURCH

The Rev’d Canon Andrew Pearson 020 7476 6730


Adrian Weale 020 7937 0765, Philip Witheridge 0207 937 5184.

ST PHILIP’S

The Rev’d David Walsh (Assoc Vicar St Philip’s)


Non-Stipendiary Minister

The Rev’d Lesley Perry 020 7938 1367 [email protected]

The Rev’d Ijeoma Ajibade [email protected]


Tim Whitfield 07852 732 364 [email protected],

Callum Stewart 07860 579 838 [email protected]

Licensed Reader Rupert Steele 020 8747 1556 [email protected]

Membership Secretary Stephen Tutcher [email protected]

Director of Music Rebecca Taylor [email protected]

THE PARISH The Rev’d Gillean Craig (Vicar of the Parish)


Parochial Churchwardens Susan Lockhart 020 7602 6073, Adrian Weale 0207 937 0765

Children’s Advocate Karsten Alva Jorgensen 020 7361 1505

Electoral Roll Officer Sally Bessada 020 7727 3210 [email protected]

Parish Office Secretary Susan Russell 020 7937 2419 [email protected]

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David Banks, 521/2

A profile by Barbara Want

Asked to profile David Banks for the

KPN and I’m embarrassed to admit

that I don’t know

who he is. ‘Former church-

warden’, Father Gillean

emails. ‘Deeply involved in

supporting justice etc issues

in Zimbabwe, about 60 years

old.’

‘60?’ explodes David. ‘I’m

52 ½, thank you.’ So I’m

happy to set the record

straight here and to express

my amazement that when he

was first elected to the Parochial Church

Council back in 1978 David was barely 19.

The week we meet he’s busy briefing

members of the House of Lords in prepara-

tion for a debate on Zimbabwe, and is

about to take a delegation of British parlia-

mentarians to a meeting with their counter-

parts in Harare. For nearly ten years David

has acted as a link between the UK and

those working for democracy in Zimbabwe.

Fearing we may have to discuss interna-

tional politics I’m relieved to discover that

he’s burning to talk about St Mary Abbots

instead. ‘What I love about the church is

that it’s not overly-pious,’ he says. ‘It’s

easy for people to join in without feeling

they have to be hyper-spiritual. It’s digni-

fied in its worship without being stuffy.

And it’s not an inward-looking holy hud-

dle.’

Back in the ‘70s when he first joined he

was alarmed at ‘how old’ the congregation

was. There was no established Sunday

school, so David got one going again and

ran it for the eleven years he was church-

warden, from 1989 to 2000. ‘It was a real

challenge and a real treat to have the chil-

dren for an hour every Sunday - one of the

most rewarding things I’ve

ever done,’ he claims. His

mission, 52 weeks a year,

‘was to talk about love, not

sin, because I wanted it to be

positive for the children, as

well as being chaotic and

fun.’

Young families began to

arrive including a child who

assumed David was the

Almighty Himself. (The

child’s mother had explained that St Mary

Abbots was the House of God).

His too was the idea of giving children

candles at the altar rail, as was the annual

Bonfire Night party for the parish children

in the vicarage garden. (Rumour has it that

he nearly caused a diplomatic incident

when he launched a rocket from a wonky

milk bottle and scored a direct hit on the

Jordanian Embassy.)

For David, church is the one place where

he comes across people of all backgrounds

and all ages, ‘and you see them through the

ups and downs of life. People going to

church and worshipping together are living

in the same poem. And they’ve shown me

more about the love of God than any

amount of sermons.’

Would he change anything? ‘Yes, the

service sheet. I think there should be just

one. And maybe some of the hymns. I’d

prefer a Radio 2/Classic FM approach to

the choice of hymns, so I can really give

them a bit of welly.’

David Banks, 52 ½, master of the deftly-

worded turn of phrase.


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Eulo

gy

Many writers have a voice in their

head that cajoles or rebukes them

as they work, and for almost a

quarter century, that voice for me has been

Tony Howard’s. I was 29 when at his insti-

gation I was hired as political correspon-

dent by the Observer, even though I’d

never written a newspaper article in my

life. He taught me the trade. He took a

paternal interest in me. Eventually I gradu-

ated to the Elysium Fields of what he called

his “lost boys”. On Fridays and Saturdays I

used to take my copy in to show him in his

office, where he’d be sucking a wine gum

or puffing on a cheap cigar. Mostly he was

kind, though he could be rude if necessary.

He once described an article I’d written as

“the work of a perfectly competent pork

butcher”. On another occasion he noted

with pursed lips that I’d misspelt Iain

Macleod: he called it “a vulgar error”.

Talking to Carol last week, she men-

tioned that Tony had been famous at school

for his performances of Polonius and Lady

Bracknell – and I’m not sure he ever entire-

ly stopped playing either role. I can hear his

voice now, as he stands at my shoulder,

looking down at what I’ve written: “Call

this a eulogy? You must be off your toot.

You clearly haven’t done a hand’s turn.

Even Trelford would have done a better job

than this…”

Tony was a wonderful combination of

paradoxes. In a characteristic inversion of

the modern commonplace stance, he didn’t

believe in God but he did believe in an

organised religion. He was almost literally

born into it, on the 12th of February 1934,

about 500 yards from where we’re sitting,

in a church flat at 24 Cheniston Gardens.

His father, Guy – “a poor parson,” in

Tony’s words – was then a young priest

AnthonyHoward

The funeral of TonyHoward took place at StMary Abbots on 5thJanuary 2011. Here weprint friend and novelistRobert Harris’ movingeulogy for an influentialand much missed mem-ber of our congregation


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Eulo

gyhere at St Mary Abbot’s and the infant Tony

is reputed to have received from the parish-

ioners of Kensington, some 300 items of

baby wear – in which case it may be that

the only time he was fashionably dressed

was in his pram.

Tony continued to worship here until the

end of his life – chiefly, he said “out of cus-

tom” and an “aesthetic appreciation of

church services,” but also because he loved

the Church of England. Jane Bonham-

Carter recalls talking to Tony at a party last

year, when he suddenly glanced past her

and his face became suffused with pleasure.

He had spotted that the Archbishop of

Canterbury was coming over to speak to

him.

When his old friend and former brother-

in-law, Alan Watkins, died last May, Tony

organised his funeral. At the interment,

there was a mix-up, the priest didn’t arrive,

and Tony, rising to the challenge, found

himself reciting over the grave, from mem-

ory, the funeral service

from the Book of

Common Prayer. I’m

not sure which man,

Alan or Tony, would

have relished the many

ironies of that scene

more.

Tony followed the

minutiae of ecclesiasti-

cal appointments as

other men might study

the football results. He

could tell you the differ-

ence between a prebendary and a canon,

just as he knew the order of precedence

between a marchioness and a countess.

Here was another of his paradoxes: the left-

wing journalist who looked and sounded

like a member of the Establishment. He

detested vulgarity. I don’t think I ever heard

him swear. One of his greatest compliments

was to observe: “that boy has beautiful

manners.” His most damning insult was to

call someone “a booby”, or, even worse, “a

very low fellow”. He had his own strange

language. The wireless was “the puff-puff

radio”. Holidays were taken in “French

France”. The Observer’s literary editor was

always “Blakey Blake”. The News Editor,

“Little Miss Muffett”. And so it went on.

His father was a lifelong Conservative

and as a young schoolboy Tony had a pic-

ture of Winston Churchill on his wall. But

quite early in his life, he decided, to quote

the current phrase, that his “heart beat on

the left”; and unlike others’, it stayed there.

He was suspicious of wealth and privilege,

despite – or perhaps because – he attended

Westminster School and Christ Church. His

family’s means were modest and he

remained by nature frugal. He recalled that

at his first private school, in Highgate, the

other pupils used to shout after him “chari-

ty boy”, even though he was sure his par-

ents had saved to pay the full fees. He pro-

fessed himself shocked by the way the son

of John Strachey was bullied at

Westminster, merely

because his father was a

minister in the Attlee

government: that made

him instinctively sympa-

thetic to Labour. And at

15 he fell under the spell

of Dick Crossman, who

came to speak to the

school political society

in 1949. Forty years

later Tony wrote in his

biography of Crossman:

“I can see him now –

talking in that magnetic way that was

entirely his own… I was not only beguiled,

but bewitched.”

Tony was a member of the Labour Party

for nearly sixty years: at one time he was

the youngest Parliamentary candidate in the

country, for Epsom, though he never fought

the seat. He believed in a party that repre-

sented what the Bible calls “the hewers of

wood and the drawers of water” – a

favourite quote of his. He started out as a

I can hear his voice

now, as he stands at

my shoulder, looking

down at what I’ve

written: “Call this a

eulogy? You must be

off your toot.”


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Bevanite, more or less, and – more or less

– he remained one, long after Bevan had

died, it being a characteristic of Tony’s that,

having found something he liked – a politi-

cal party, a dish in a restaurant, a suit, a

friend – he saw no reason to change it, but

stuck with it stubbornly, especially when it

became unfashionable to do so.

He was never sectarian. Michael

Heseltine was one of his oldest and closest

friends, and was for a time his landlord and

flatmate, in what developed into a leg-

endary story of leaking roofs, skipped rent

and live-in girlfriends that sounds like a

cross between Rising Damp and The Odd

Couple.

Tony, in typical

English style, didn’t

care much about politi-

cal ideology. Ideology

bored him almost as

much policy – and poli-

cy bored him a very

great deal. Crossman

devoted fifteen years of

his life to a Trollopian-

sounding scheme called

the National

Superannuation Plan,

yet Tony mentions it only twice in an

almost 400-page biography. What interested

him about politics, and about life in gener-

al, were the foibles of human character.

That was what made him such a wonderful

journalist. He would have been a terrible

politician.

The last time I spoke to him, about a

month ago, he ticked me off, in his usual

Tonyish way, for having referred to journal-

ism on Radio Four as “a profession”: it

was, he rightly corrected me, “a trade” – a

trade that he practised full-time from 1958

– first on Reynolds News and the Sunday

Pictorial, then on the Manchester

Guardian, the New Statesman, the Sunday

Times, the Observer, the New Statesman

again – this time as editor – the Listener –

again, as editor – the Observer – again, this

time as deputy editor – and finally at

The Times, as obituaries editor. Throughout

these fifty-odd years he also worked con-

stantly in broadcasting, presenting pro-

grammes on the BBC (both on television

and puff-puff radio), on Channel Four, on

ITV and on Sky. He was so closely

involved in the annual journalism awards

organised by What the Papers Say, that

they became known as “the Tonys”.

It’s no secret that he would have liked to

edit a national newspaper and he occasion-

ally fancied himself a Machiavellian plotter

to this end, but was, as Alan Watkins used

to remark, endearingly hopeless at it.

Seeking to mount a coup to become editor

of the Observer in 1988,

he waited, like some

Latin American colonel,

until Donald Trelford

was out of the country,

and then struck.

Unfortunately, Donald

turned out to be on Tiny

Rowland’s yacht. The

troops returned to their

barracks. Tony left the

paper.

He wrote three fine

official biographies – of Dick Crossman,

Rab Butler and Cardinal Basil Hume – and,

with Dick West, one of the best journalistic

accounts of British politics ever published,

The Making of the Prime Minister (1964).

If ever I wanted to tease Tony, all I had to

do was tell him was that this was the book

that made the youthful Peter Mandelson

want to become a politician: it was a com-

pliment he invariably received with a shud-

der.

As a journalist, he was a rare blend of

talents. There may have been more knowl-

edgeable political historians over the past

50 years. There may have been finer prose-

stylists. There may have even been

shrewder judges of public figures. But there

was no one who combined all three abilities

as successfully as Tony Howard. To take

What interested him

about politics, and about

life in general, were the

foibles of human

character. That was what

made him such a

wonderful journalist.


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just one article out of thousands: on

December the 14th 1962, Tony wrote in the

New Statesman about Tony Benn’s cam-

paign to renounce his viscountcy.

Presciently headlined (with a question

mark) “Mr Home and Mr Hogg?” it pointed

out that one unintended consequence of the

Peerage Bill then going through Parliament

would be to widen the field of potential

successors to Harold Macmillan, for if a

Labour lord could renounce his title so too

could a Tory. No one else had then spotted

it. The-then Earl Home, many years later,

told his official biographer that reading

Tony’s article was the moment he realised

he could become prime minister, and he

started making plans accordingly.

Given that Tony once told me that every

day Home was prime minister he woke up

ashamed to be British, he can’t have been

especially pleased by this achievement. But

it did show just how remarkable a political

commentator he was.

There is a coda to this story. In 1993,

Tony embarked on a six-year Indian

summer as obituaries editor of The

Times – his ideal job in many ways: “row-

ing people across the Styx,” as he called it

– and I remember the schoolboyish glee

with which he described how he now had

access to all those Establishment obituaries

that were held on file, and how he could

subtly alter them, usually by the simple

insertion of a sentence beginning,

“However, comma”. Alec Douglas-Home

was one recipient of this treatment;

Princess Margaret another.

One of the reasons Tony loved those

years editing obituaries – what he called

“the hinge of history and journalism” – was

that they took him back into an office

again. And that brings me to the last thing I

want to say. He hated working alone, which

perhaps explains why he wrote only four

books. He needed the company of other

people: for stimulus, for diversion, for gos-

sip. In particular – a final paradox for a

man who sometimes seemed set in his ways

– he adored the company of young people.

“If there’s one thing I can’t bear,” he used

to say, “it’s an old sweat.” He’d been

helped at the start of his career by Alastair

Hetherington and John Freeman and it

delighted him to be in a position to perform

the same service for another generation: he

called it quite simply “the most important

part of being an editor”.

Journalism is ephemeral. What once

seemed brilliant issues and memorable arti-

cles are now as dead as poor old

Crossman’s National Superannuation

Scheme. But the people Tony brought on –

that remarkable collection of young writers

at the New Statesman, and the many others

he encouraged afterwards at the BBC, the

Listener, the Observer, and The Times –

these people really are his true professional

monument.

It was a privilege to have known him,

and to have known, through him, Carol, his

wife of forty-five years. He would not have

achieved half what he did without her. It is

a measure of his devotion to her that she

even persuaded him to spend some time in

the country, at Ludlow – although I must

say that whenever he visited us in the coun-

try he never removed his black Oxfords, or

forgot his navy blue raincoat.

“I hope I’m not frightened of death,”

Tony said in an interview two years ago.

“I’m frightened of illness and pain and that

kind of thing. But if I could just heel over,

would I mind all that much? I don’t know. I

tend to believe that death is the end, but

I’m not sort of 99 per cent convinced that is

true. I could be wrong about that, and I

might get an agreeable surprise.”

Let us hope that he is indeed experienc-

ing that “agreeable surprise”. As for the rest

of us – no longer boys, alas – we will at

least always carry in our heads that won-

derfully rich, wise and distinctive voice,

which is, even now, telling me to cut the

guff, and kindly leave the pulpit.


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Book C

lub

We have read two books so far this

year in the Book Club,

Small Wars by Sadie Jones and

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King. These

books, while being very different from each

other, are linked by the theme of

war and the havoc it brings on

the lives of those involved.

Small Wars, first published in

2009, is set against the Cyprus

emergency at the time of the

Suez crisis in 1956 and the

struggle of Greek Cyprus to

achieve union with Greece.

The story is told through

Clara, the young wife of a

successful officer Hal, who accompanies

him to live in officers’ quarters in Cyprus.

Faced with the realities of war; unprovoked

violence to the local civilian Greek commu-

nity, rape and murder committed by sol-

diers, Hal finds it impossible to come to

terms with army procedure.

Jones opens up themes of relevance

today, such as how people are urged to con-

sider the greater good and not pursue alle-

gations which they know are true, about

how wrongdoing is swept under the carpet,

about how soldiers conduct themselves and

their campaigns.

Stephen King, a well

know author of science

fiction, wrote Hearts in

Atlantis in 1988. The

theme is of the Vietnam

war. This is not science

fiction, but the reading

group was interested in

how King used his science fiction tech-

niques to enhance his story. There are five

linked but separate stories here, in a very

long book. The first story, Low Men in

Yellow Coats has tantalising references to

other mysterious goings on, which

only become comprehensible when

you understand his oblique refer-

ences to his other works. But the

theme sings out clearly: the tragedy

of the Vietnam War, and what it did to

a whole generation of American

youth, girls as well as boys. “We

blew it” is the quotation from Easy

Rider which fronts the book. We are

lucky in having two members of the

reading group from USA who were

able to set all this into context for us.

The reading group has a list of books and

dates and meets roughly monthly to discuss

the books we have read. Then we meet

again in Fr. Rob Marshall’s flat to see the

“film of the book” (where that exists) and,

over a light lunch, compare notes about

how it is portrayed. I find the books inter-

esting, often challenging, and having the

dates set makes me keep up with reading.

We also went as a group to see The

King’s Speech at Kensington Odeon. And

there is talk of a possible summer river trip

to Hampton Court to see the King James

Bible.

The next meeting of the Book Club is on

the 31st March and they’ll be reading

Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold,

The Next Chapterfrom the Book Club, by Barbara Hensman


Istill recall vividly, my first ever visit to

a Russian Orthodox service. It was in a

rather dreary suburb of Moscow, over

thirty years ago, at a time when the Soviet

Union still looked confident, assured and

completely unassailable. The biggest strug-

gle was just getting into the building in the

first place. I could see the golden onion

domes of the church from a distance, but

accessing the entrance through the seem-

ingly impenetrable fencing that surrounded

the church, had deliberately been made as

difficult as possible. Nevertheless, I’d been

assured by Olga, our ever-present Soviet

guide that this was indeed a functioning

church, because in the Glorious people’s

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there

was complete freedom of religion. I made it

into the church and remained throughout

the liturgy, captivated by the beautiful,

haunting singing, the exquisite icons sur-

rounded by flickering candles, and deeply

moved by the cross-section of ordinary

Russian people I saw there, willing to risk

everything in order to remain faithful to

Christ in an aggressively atheistic environ-

ment.

By contrast, the first Nepali Church serv-

ice I ever attended couldn’t have been more

different. The congregation was comprised

of mostly illiterate peasant farmers and, in

comparison with the ancient liturgy and

iconography of the Russian Orthodox, the

service entailed a limited range of simple

choruses, extemporary prayers and an

exceedingly lengthy sermon. In contrast to

the secularism of the Soviet Union, Nepal

was and is one of the most overtly religious

societies in the world. Nevertheless, in

common with their Russian brothers and

sisters in Christ, the Nepali church was for

decades a persecuted minority. Each week

as I left church with my Nepali friends, we

were likely to be photographed by plain-

clothes police, who monitored the services

carefully. Permitting oneself to be convert-

ed was punishable by 18 months in jail,

whilst the simple act of baptizing someone

from a Hindu or Buddhist background who

had freely requested baptism, carried a

mandatory sentence of six years in jail.

But what a difference a couple of

decades makes. Today, the Russian

Orthodox Church is flourishing in the for-

mer Soviet Union. Likewise, the Church in

Nepal is one of the fastest growing

Christian Churches in the world with prob-

ably a million members and much higher

levels of church attendance than here in the

UK. The country is now a secular state

guaranteeing freedom of religion to all, and

Christmas Day and Good Friday are public

holidays. But thirty year ago, if you would

Our Man in Egypt

Fr Gareth, who has long-standing links with Egypt

through friends and family, decided to do his four-day

annual retreat at a Coptic Monastery in the Egyptian

desert, He found himself there, just after the recent

revolution, at a fascinating time in Egypt's history.'

Egy

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have told persecuted Christians in either

country what the future held, I think they

would have found it hard to imagine a situ-

ation in which such change could come.

The past two months have seen massive,

seismic changes taking place across the

Arab world. Most commentators agree that

one would need to go back to the events of

1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall to find

a situation of comparable significance, and

it’s still very far from clear how things will

eventually shake-down. There’s unlikely to

be any quick resolution to the situation in

Libya and small protests have begun even

in places like Saudi Arabia.

The other week I returned from my annu-

al retreat which this year I spent at a Coptic

Orthodox Monastery and retreat centre in

the Egyptian desert about 75 miles from

Cairo – although I did also find time to visit

the demonstrations in Tahrir Square (I gath-

er another much more eminent member of

the St Mary Abbots congregation was also

in Tahrir Square that same week – so never

let it be said that St Mary Abbots isn’t

always at the cutting edge!!). This was my

fourteenth visit to Egypt in the last seven-

teen years. One of my brothers-in-law is an

Egyptian and a number of my closest

friends live there, so over the years I’ve

been privileged to gain some insights into

the life of the Coptic Community. Egypt has

by far and away the largest Christian com-

munity in the region. Out of a population

of 80 million people, there are approximate-

ly 8 million Copts.

The word Copt literally means

‘Egyptian’, and when you ask Copts about

their culture, they will quickly tell you that

they were the original inhabitants of Egypt

descended from the Pharaohs, and that the

country was predominantly Christian long

before the Arab Muslim invaders came.

Today 90 % of Egypt’s population is

Muslim and in numerous different respects,

Copts face difficulties in their lives and are

often made to feel like second class citi-

zens. When you travel around Egypt,

Church buildings are very clearly visible,

Egyp

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Cont’d ...


some of them ancient, but trying to get per-

mission to build new churches, or to carry

out maintenance work on existing buildings

is often well-nigh impossible. The curricu-

lum in Egyptian schools is tightly con-

trolled and only Islam is taught, with no

provision for teaching about Coptic history

or culture. In the poorer, rural areas of the

country, particularly in Upper Egypt,

Churches have been the target of attacks

and Christians have even faced confessional

killings. It’s little

wonder then that,

although Christians

comprise only 10% of

Egypt’s population, of

those Egyptians who

emigrate each year to

seek a new life

abroad, 90% are

Copts. Things came

to head on New Year’s

Day this year, when in

Alexandria a Coptic Church was targeted

when a massive car bomb killed 24 people

and injured 97 others, all of them Copts.

In the face of such pressures the relation-

ship between Copts and the Egyptian state

has, perhaps unsurprisingly, been somewhat

ambivalent. For the past thirty years, the

Mubarak regime and before him the regime

of Anwar Sadat, has ruled Egypt with an

iron fist (although for the West it was seen

as a somewhat benign iron fist in a velvet

glove). Mubarak, our governments rea-

soned, may have been a dictator who rigged

elections and brooked no dissent, backed-up

by a repressive state-security apparatus, but

at least he ensured stability in a notoriously

volatile region; while the Camp David

peace accords with

Israel ensured the sup-

port of the west and

significant aid to

Egypt’s military. Most

significantly perhaps,

in an age of increasing

fears about Islamic

extremism, Mubarak

was highly successful

in persuading western

leaders that he alone

could provide the necessary bulwark against

Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood. In

general the Coptic community bought into

this narrative. They’ve come to resent their

de-facto second-class status, but in the face

of their very real fears about what it might

Although Christians

comprise only 10% of

Egypt’s population, of t

hose Egyptians who

emigrate each year to

seek a new life abroad,

90% are Copts.

Egy

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pp. 21 ...


mean for them if the Muslim Brotherhood

came to power – they regarded Mubarak as

the lesser of two evils and a more effective

guarantor of their security.

Well, no one could have predicted the

regime would be swept away quite so

quickly. During my week in Egypt, I spoke

with some of those who had demonstrated

in Tahrir Square and all of them without

exception spoke of

how these events had

brought Egyptians

closer together – how

they had begun to

talk with neighbours,

and those of a differ-

ent socio-economic

background to them-

selves. They had sur-

prised themselves

with their courage,

resolve and determi-

nation and spoke of

feeling proud to be

Egyptian for the first time. For the Christian

community, perhaps the most shocking

development is the news that the feared and

all-powerful former Minister of the Interior,

Habib Al Adly, may have ordered the New

Years’ Day massacre of Copts in

Alexandria, as a means of heightening the

Christian community’s fear of Islamic

extremism, and so ensuring continued

Coptic support for the Mubarak

Government. This is only an allegation, but

there is sufficient evidence for the case to

have now been referred to the public prose-

cutor, and the former minister is now under

arrest.

One by-product of the recent changes

is a sudden flurry of church build-

ing activity, as Coptic leaders take

advantage of the current power vacuum, to

press ahead with building projects which

had been blocked by the former regime.

There are also signs of greater co-operation

and communication between different reli-

gious communities. One encouraging

development I had never seen before in all

my visits to Egypt was that outside many of

the mosques and churches were enormous

banners of the Egyptian flag with, in one

corner a crescent and in the other a cross,

and emblazoned across the flag in Arabic,

the words: Muslim or Christian, we’re all

Egytpians. (Such an aspiration of national

unity alongside diversity is a very far cry

from the situation in

Pakistan, where, trag-

ically, we recently

saw the brutal assas-

sination of the

Minister for Minority

Affairs, Shabaz

Bhatti, a Roman

Catholic and the only

Christian in the cabi-

net killed for daring

to challenge that

country’s draconian

blasphemy laws).

In Matthew’s

Gospel, Jesus said: ‘Truly I tell you, if you

have faith the size of a mustard seed, you

will say to this mountain, “move from here

to there” and it will move; and nothing will

be impossible for you.’ The quiet but digni-

fied faith of our brothers and sisters in

Christ in places like Russia and Nepal has,

in recent years born witness to the moving

of many mountains in their lives. For our

Coptic brothers and sisters, the future

remains unclear, although right now there is

great hope and anticipation that recent

changes may herald a brighter future.

Meanwhile for Christians in Pakistan and

elsewhere in the world, some Everest-sized

mountains need to be moved before they

will ever enjoy the freedoms we take so

much for granted.

So, as we thank God for the freedom we

have to worship Him, let us remember our

fellow Christians not so blessed. Let us

hold them in our prayers, and learn from

their example of courageous faith in the

midst of great adversity.

Outside many of the

Mosques and Churches

were enormous banners of

the Egyptian flag ... and

emblazoned across the flag

in Arabic the words, “

Muslim or Christian,

we’re all Egyptians.”

Egyp

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SMA

Sch

ool

Tuesday 1st March 2011 was certainly

a ‘red letter’ day in the life of St

Mary Abbots School. Pupils had

returned from the half term break waiting

with anticipation to get a glimpse of the

new kitchen and dining room that had been

out of sight since July 2010.

The pupils walked down the staircase

into the basement area and all I could hear

were comments such a ‘wow’, ‘how cool,’

‘fantastic,’ ‘magic,’ etc. In fact, the pupils

were so entranced by the dining experience

that they forgot to line up for the food!

Many children have also commented on the

‘vegetables taste much better’ and ‘chips on

Friday are different,’ and that the food is

‘hotter than before.’

We are truly very grateful to everyone

who has made this vision possible. Many

people have worked so hard behind the

scenes and we are immensely grateful for

their hard work and commitment to the

school. We are blessed as a school to have

this new area completed and so beautifully

in keeping with the character of the build-

ing.

All we need to do now is to give our

school restaurant a new name!

The New Dining Hall atSMA School

From the Headteacher, Mrs Nicola Doyle

After andbefore


For months, all the students of St Mary

Abbots have been enthusing on our

new dining hall, often trying to catch

a glimpse of what was actually behind the

huge mountains of scaffolding. Even the

teachers couldn’t suppress their excitement

for when the hall would finally open. In the

time leading up to the grand opening, all of

the pupils untameable imaginations were

running amok. And after what seemed like

years of refurbishing, a huge snake of rush-

ing happy children piled into the hall for

their first ever lunch there. The children sat

down at their new seats, happily making

faces in the reflective plates. When the din-

ner ladies called for the main course all the

students clambered over each other to be

first in the line, their insides screaming to

be fed. I was part of this demonic frenzy to

be fed, perhaps the rushing was uncalled

for, why shouldn’t I be excited?!

One of the bonuses of this fantastic new

hall is that the social life of the pupils has

improved considerably. Also, another of the

factors contributing to this wonderful

breakthrough is that the packed lunches

now sit with the school dinners, making a

lovely atmosphere for the pupils to eat in,

as well as being able

to sit with different

people and make

new friends.

Furthermore, a group

of new dining staff

have been employed

and so that gives us

the opportunity to

learn to socialise

with all ages.

Through all the

benefits of the new

dining hall my

favourite is the most

obvious, the food. There has been a mas-

sive change on the way we eat now, its

healthy, its delicious, and now the children

can now enjoy good ingredients, made into

great meals all on the school premises.

Everything in the new hall is improved,

including the mood of the kids as we chat-

ter joyfully away to each other. I also find it

lovely being with all of my friends in the

basement, and being surrounded by people,

that in the playground I might not usually

have a chance to sit with.

I originally had packed lunch but after

watching this wonderful transformation I

was at loss at why I hadn’t joined school

dinners earlier! I have had school dinners

for a week now and I do not regret my

choice one teeny bit. The transition from

packed lunch to school dinners has been

huge and only one or two people in my

year are still packed lunch, and to me for

utterly unknown reasons! The new dining

hall may have a few faults, however we and

many others feel it has overall scored a 10

out of 10!!

25

SMA

School

From Charlie Rhodes and Grace Mcilwain, Class 6

Dining Hall Cont’d ...


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SMA

Sch

ool

As we first walked down the modern

new stairs nothing had prepared us

for what we were about to see. We

saw a shining, shimmering, awesome new

dining room. The first word that immedi-

ately popped into our heads was EPIC!

When we first tasted the food it was scrum-

didlyumptious! On the first day we had lux-

urious cottage pie. Turkey curry and rice

has been the overall most popular food so

far. A class two child reported “I have never

enjoyed such a good meal before.” The

jugs, cups and plate are yellow and blue

which matches our school uniform. “Isn’t

that awesome?” reported one child. “The

kitchen is sparkly like the stars, isn’t that

magnificent?” said another pupil. The floor

tiles are blue, grey and white. A class one

child said that he likes it better “because it

has much brighter colours.” Another child

stated “I like the floor because it is colour-

ful.”

We would like to thank everybody who

has helped to make our new dining room

and kitchen. We would especially like to

thank the builders, the people who raised

the money and the people who made it pos-

sible for it to happen. It has made a massive

difference to our school. Lots of packed

lunches are changing to school dinners

because the food is now so good!

From Lola Stadlen and her editorial teamfrom Class 2

pp. 25 ...


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SMA

School

Book Day ParadeSt Mary Abbot’s School pupils dress as characters from their favourite books


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(with Crèche & Sunday Schools)11.15 am Choral Matins & Sermon12.30 pm Holy Eucharist6.30 pm Evensong with Sermon & Holy Eucharist

(1st Sunday in month: Taizé Prayer &Holy Eucharist)

Mondays 7.10 am Morning Prayer 8.30 am Morning Prayer12.30 pm Holy Eucharist 1.05 pm Sunday on Monday service5.30 pm Evening Prayer

Tuesdays 7.10 am Morning Prayer 7.30 am Holy Eucharist8.30 am Morning Prayer9.15am Informal Holy Eurarist11.30am Holy Eucharist

(Book of Common Prayer)5.30 pm Evening Prayer

Wednesdays7.10 am Morning Prayer 7.30 am Holy Eucharist 2.00pm 3rd Weds in the month: Holy Eucharist

with Laying-on of Hands & Anointing5.30 pm Evening Prayer

Thursdays7.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30am St Mary Abbots School Eucharist (in term

time all welcome)5.30 pm Evening Prayer

Fridays7.10 am Morning Prayer 7.30 am Holy Communion 5.30 pm Evening Prayer

Saturdays9.40 am Morning Prayer 10.00 am Holy Communion 5.30 pm Evening Prayer

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& on major Feasts): SUNG EUCHARIST with Sermon (with Sunday School)

11.00 am (on 2nd & 4th Sundays in the month): Sung Matins with Sermon (with Sunday School)

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