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32 The Parish Magazine - January 2023 Please mention The Parish Magazine when responding this advertisement Exceptional care from a compassionate team Person-centred care is at the very heart of Signature’s ethos. Our empathetic care teams provide both high quality practical care and day-to-day companionship, while our flexible, tailored care plans grow and change with your needs, supporting independent living for as long as possible. We take a holistic approach to living well, so we’ve also brought together specialist caring teams to look after a range of other important services including hospitality, activities, dining and more. We work hard to recruit and train only the best people, who share the values that underpin our homes. RESIDENTIAL | NURSING | DEMENTIA CARE | RESPITE Come and meet the team for yourself and get a sense of what life is like at Signature. Contact the Client Liaison Manager at a Signature near you to arrange your visit. Cliveden Manor, Marlow 01628 702310 Sonning 0118 338 2986 signature-care-homes.co.uk Follow us on Facebook for a window into our homes
History Was it really . . . ? . . . 250 YEARS AGO on 17 January 1773 that HMS Resolution, Captain James Cook’s ship, became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. the sciences The Parish Magazine - January 2023 33 . . . 175 YEARS AGO on 24 January 1848 that the California Gold Rush began, when a construction worker, James W Marshall, found flakes of gold in the South Fork American River near Sacramento. . . . 125 YEARS AGO on 14 January 1898 that Lewis Carroll died. He is known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and the poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. . . . 100 YEARS AGO on 8 January 1923 that the first BBC outside broadcast took place, at the British National Opera Company’s production of The Magic Flute from Covent Garden London. . . . 80 YEARS AGO on 30 January 1943 that, on the 10th anniversary of Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany, the RAF launched a massed air raid on Berlin, disrupting major speeches by Goring and Goebbels which were being broadcast. It was a major propaganda coup for the Allies. . . . 70 YEARS AGO on 31 January and 1 February 1953 that the North Sea flooded. Over 1,800 people were killed in the Netherlands, over 300 in Eastern England, and 28 in Belgium. A further 133 people were killed when the Princess Victoria car ferry capsized off Scotland, and many fishing boats sank. . . . 65 YEARS AGO on 1 January 1958 that Chinese leader Mao Zedong announced the Great Leap Forwards with a 5-year plan to transform China from an agrarian economy into a socialist society via rapid industrialisation and collective farming. The plan failed and within three years tens of millions of people had died from mass killings, starvation and forced labour. . . . 60 YEARS AGO on 23 January 1963 that the British Intelligence Officer and Soviet Spy, Kim Philby, defected to the Soviet Union. . . . 50 YEARS AGO on 30 January 1973 that the Watergate scandal began when seven men were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Complex in Washington DC. . . . 40 YEARS AGO on 17 January 1983 that Breakfast Television was launched in the UK. . . . 25 YEARS AGO on 23 January 1998 that the film Titanic was released in the UK. Oleksii Terpugov, dreamstime.com Miracles: the will of God? By Dr Ruth Bancewicz, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge. We live in a world where we can expect the sun to rise tomorrow and the milk to pour out of the jug when we tilt it over our glass. But for God, the properties of matter and the biological processes that we know and read about in textbooks are simply the usual ways he works. If he chooses to do something unexpected to demonstrate something about his character, his relationship with us, and his purposes, then he will. Fourteen UK-based science professors wrote to The Times in 1984: 'We gladly accept the Virgin Birth, the gospel miracles, and the Resurrection of Christ as historical events. We know that we are representative of many other scientists who are also Christians standing in the historical tradition of the churches.' For the non-believer, I would suggest a thought experiment: if God exists, why should he be bound by the same laws of physics as us? WONDERFUL TIMING? Prof Christine Done is an astrophysicist at the University of Durham. In the book True Scientists, True Faith (Monarch, 2014) she writes: 'Even when I was an atheist I used to get cross at discussions…on how all Jesus’s miracles could be physically explained. To me, once you have believed in a God, a supernatural being, then it’s obvious that supernatural stuff could happen, since any God who can make the physical universe and its laws can presumably suspend those laws in any time and way he chooses.' Some miracles appear to be wonderful timing. The wind blew all night, and the Israelites crossed the Red Sea on dry land, for example. Biblical writers don’t seem interested in distinguishing between wonders that seem to break the usual rules of how things happen and those that don’t. Many in Jesus’ audiences were not won over by his wonders. Most of the people in the crowds who ate the food he produced out of nowhere were quite happy to turn on him when the religious authorities decided he was dangerous. We can only make sense of something unexpected, such as an answer to prayer for healing, in the context of a growing relationship with God. The exciting task for a Christian is to explain what this interaction looks like, and to demonstrate what ‘your kingdom come’ looks like in our communities. God works through us in words, works and wonders.
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