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    • Easter hymn: Quick past the places we used to meet
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    • Faith of metaphor & mystery (wedding version)
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    • An evolving response… Christchurch, Friday 15 March 2019
    • Winter is coming… and spring, summer & autumn – but not just yet
    • in the wake of racist terror attack

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