Mobility issues alone eventually meant that I needed to accept that ‘full-time,’ Rest Home care became inevitable. Having used ‘one’ particular Home for ‘Respite-care’, I reluctantly agreed to permanently re-accept residency there because of my wife’s impending illness which necessitated hospitalised surgical care.
I very quickly became aware of something I had NOT noticed previously. There was a definite lack of conversation and inter-communication between most of the residents. I remembered having read an article written by an Australian living in a similar facility. In that, he described his ‘ABSOLUTE and UTTER  BOREDOM’! 

 

A Book Review, by Dominic Kirkham (from the UK SOFiA March magazine)
Our world is ‘dangerously combustible, due to financial crises, pandemics, increasing injustices and inequalities, democratic chaos, geopolitical upheaval, wars and rumours of more wars to come.’ So begins this book by two distinguished New Testament scholars, Tom Wright and Michael Bird (W&B). The talk now is all about the end of Western civilisation, or at best, how to save what’s left of it. W&B are plunging into this debate to establish what political witness the church can contribute that will enable a positive engagement.

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