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INTERVIEWER |
SUE |
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How long have you attended St Andrew's? |
6 years |
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What do you do? |
Librarian
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What church activities are you involved in? |
I’m on the library rota and read
the lesson when scheduled. I also sing the hymns
enthusiastically in the hope that it might encourage others to
join in. |
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What are your five favourite things? |
London, choral singing, French
food, rainbows, opera
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Can you describe a book you read recently in one sentence? |
“On beauty” by Zadie Smith, an
intelligent, funny and sharp dissection of both family life and
academic life |
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What is your favourite television programme? |
“A year at Kew”
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If you could have lunch with two well known people, who would
you invite? |
Mozart and Queen Victoria
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What is one of the most important things you have learned in
life so far? |
Feelings can (& do) arrive
unbidden but your actions and behaviour can be controlled |
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Why is your Christian faith important to you? |
Faith enables me to
keep heading in the right direction. I don’t mean that it
merely engenders a sterile and unthinking moral rectitude, but
that it provides a framework within which to learn, argue and
search for God. I’m fairly sure that God speaks to everyone in
a different way, but the way that he speaks to each individual
will be the way that that person will understand. |
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How does your faith affect the way in which you live your life
day to day? |
Like Brother
Laurence, I try to remember the presence of God in all the
little details of daily life. God should not be kept for
‘Sunday best’ – he is around in making toast for breakfast, at
work, at the pub, in doing the washing up. I instinctively
recoil from the sentimentality of the “What would Jesus do?”
attitude, and yet it has aspects that are appealing. God became
a human being and coped with the things we cope with, made
friends, had a job, socialised, ate, slept – if I can do these
things with God I’ll probably be OK. |
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What is special about St. Andrew's for you? |
The friendliness, the
open-mindedness, the stained glass steam engine!
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If you could say one thing to someone thinking of coming to St.
Andrew's for the first time, what would it be? |
See you on Sunday – can you sing?
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