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The view from Down St Mary
Click the following link to download my piece 'The view from Down St Mary’ in pdf format. https://www.rogersteer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/View-from-DSM-780-2014.pdf
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What Edward taught me the hard way
On 26 July 1972, as a young man of 27, I walked into the old Warwick Lane headquarters of Hodder and Stoughton in the shadow of St Paul’s cathedral. I had fallen in love with the story of George Müller,...
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20 Secrets of Good Writing
Here's one example of a piece of writing: Ecclesiastes 9:11: I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to...
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How to be a great writer
'How can I be a great writer?' I asked. 'Write what is new, you and true,' the wise man replied. 'How can fiction be true?' I asked. 'Make it believable,' he said. 'Sounds easy,' I said. 'It will take a lifetime,' he said. 'And it...
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A N Wilson´s return to faith
Friday 15 May 2009 I used to read A N Wilson with profit in his Christian years, was sad when he appeared to abandon faith, but am delighted that he has returned to such a strong and articulate faith. Do take...
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The Flower
If you visit, as I did recently, the little church in Bemerton where George Herbert was rector in the 1630s you'll see a beautiful Altar-Frontal designed by Jane Lemon and made by the Sarum Guild. It illustrates Herbert's poem 'The...
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Love
On the day that George Herbert was inducted as Rector of Bemerton in 1630, his friends waited outside, as was the custom. They listened as he rang the bell of St Andrew's Church to signify that he'd taken possession of...
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The Collar
From the little church of St Andrew in Bemerton, George Herbert could walk along the bank of the River Nadder to the services at Salisbury Cathedral. Herbert also walked along a road which is perhaps unfashionable today - the way...
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