About Author: Laura Sykes

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Posts by Laura Sykes

Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory: The Book Of Numbers (@layanglicana)

Posted on April 5, 2013 | 1 Comment
Have you, like me, always skipped the Book of Numbers out of a morbid fear of statistics? Thanks to Digidisciple, I have discovered that it is not about maths at...
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Travelling for God: Pilgrimage and Exodus (@layanglicana)

Posted on February 5, 2013 | No Comments
Pilgrimage When Christians think about travelling for God, we usually think in terms of individual pilgrimage. Maggi Dawn’s ‘The Accidental Pilgrim‘ describes it in terms of the labyrinth on the...
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Why Are We Waiting? (@layanglicana)

Posted on December 5, 2012 | 3 Comments
We Wait, And We Wait, And We… Waiting rooms, forming a queue, getting in line, waiting for the bus, waiting for time to pass, waiting for something to turn up,...
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“Tell Me The Old, Old Story” (“@layanglicana)

Posted on October 5, 2012 | 3 Comments
If I were to say to you these days, ‘Of course the Bible is just a story’, you would probably be highly offended, thinking that I was claiming that it...
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Have We Changed Our Perception Of God? (@layanglicana) #bigbible

Posted on August 5, 2012 | 6 Comments
Personally, I blame Pam.(No, not really, Pam!) She encouraged us to ‘do’ theology, irrespective of whether we are academically qualified to do so. So today I am asking an ignorant...
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Empire Avenue: The Moral Maze of Social Media

Posted on June 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
What is Empire Avenue? Empire Avenue is a game launched in July 2010, in which users buy and sell shares in people, using an imaginary currency. You can read more about how it works...
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Lay Anglicana Online House Group for Lent: How Has It Gone?

Posted on April 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
In February I wrote a Digidisciple post called ‘Lay Anglicana tries an online house group for Lent‘: this is the follow-up. At the bridge table, after a hand there is...
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Lay Anglicana Tries an Online House Group for Lent #bigread12

Posted on February 5, 2012 | 11 Comments
We are social animals It is a truism to say that we live in a global village – my twitterverse and blogosphere (and I imagine yours as well) include residents...
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We All Dance To The Music Of Time

Posted on December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Sardana In Barcelona’s Plaça de Sant Jaume, there is always a group of people dancing the Sardana. According to Wikipedia, this dance was banned during the Franco régime...
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The Ecumenical Effect of Social Media

Posted on October 5, 2011 | 4 Comments
‘Die, Heretic Scum!’ I expect you know the “joke” that has been doing the rounds on the internet for a while, of which this is the punchline? This...
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