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St Mary Abbots
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St Philip’s
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.
asks Barbara Want
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Par
ish D
irect
ory
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
Deputy Churchwardens
Adrian Weale 020 7937 0765, Philip Witheridge 0207 937 5184.
ST PHILIP’S
The Rev’d David Walsh (Assoc Vicar St Philip’s)
020 7603 4420 [email protected]
Non-Stipendiary Minister
The Rev’d Lesley Perry 020 7938 1367 [email protected]
The Rev’d Ijeoma Ajibade [email protected]
Deputy Churchwardens
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)
020 7937 6032 [email protected]
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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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
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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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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.
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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
t
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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
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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
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