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36 The Parish Magazine - October 2024 RENDEZVOUS IN THE ARK Tuesday 8 October Tuesday 22 October Open to everyone of all ages for lunch and conversation Reserve your seat on: 0118 969 3298 St St Andrew's Andrew's Ark Ark St Andrew's Ark Third Sunday of the month (accept August) Third Sunday Third Sunday of the of month 3pm the — month (accept 4pm (accept (except August) August) 3pm — 3pm 4pm Craft— Science — 4pm — Puzzles Stories Craft— — Craft— Science Games Science — Songs Puzzles — Puzzles — Celebration Stories Stories — Games — Games — Songs Free — Food! Songs — Celebration — Celebration Free Food! Free Food! An afternoon of fun, fellowship and a free meal together An afternoon An afternoon of fun, A of fellowship different fun, fellowship theme and a each free and meal month a free together meal together A different A different theme each theme month For more information: each month For more For information: more Corinne information: Corinne Corinne corinne@sonningparish.org.uk corinne@sonningparish.org.uk corinne@sonningparish.org.uk the church of st andrew, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF CHARVIL, SONNING and sonning eye the church the of church st andrew, of st andrew, SERVING SERVING THE THE COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES OF CHARVIL, OF CHARVIL, SONNING SONNING and sonning and sonning eye eye Church of St Andrew Serving Sonning, Charvil & Sonning Eye Church of St Andrew Serving Church of St Andrew messy Sonning, church Charvil poster & A0 Sonning Feb 2024.indd Eye Serving Sonning, 1 Charvil & Sonning Eye 15/01/2024 14:44:57 messy church poster A0 Feb 2024.indd 1 15/01/2024 14:44:57 messy church poster A0 Feb 2024.indd 1 15/01/2024 14:44:57 313 October 2024.indd 36 12/09/2024 09:40:02
THE ARTS — 2 FROM PAGE 35 fragmented communities requiring diverse missional approaches. Weaving together parable, storytelling, travelogue history and poetry, Paul Bradbury journeys from rural Norfolk to inner-city London, from a radical missional community in Lincolnshire, to a traditional village parish in Dorset. He looks at the church today, and how parish communities are wrestling with the tensions between the value of inherited church, and the future. THE SCIENCES The Parish Magazine - October 2024 37 Have You Ever Wondered? - Finding the Everyday Clues to Meaning, Purpose & Spirituality By Andy Bannister and Gavin Matthews, 10Publishing, £7.99 Have you wondered why we are so insatiably curious about our universe? Or have you ever simply looked to the stars in the vast night’s sky and just wondered? This book includes contributors from a range of backgrounds in science, law, linguistics, theology, bioethics, history, and more. They reflect on how their questions have, in some cases unexpectedly, led them to a compelling Christian spirituality and a profound sense of meaning and purpose in life. Jesus, Strong and Kind By Sinclair B Ferguson, 10Publishing, £10.98 Using words of the popular children’s song it helps them understand that they can always run to Jesus, even when they feel lost or scared or weak. With some attractive colour illustrations by Angelo Ruta, the book will be a helpful addition to any family’s library. Living in a Dangerous World - Moving from Fear to Faith By William P Smith, New Growth Press, £2.30 The author argues that our faith should change our strategies for dealing with fear. He offers practical guidance on how to exchange fear for faith by learning to find security in our relationship with an unchanging God. Image: Hox genes in various species by Stefanie F Hueber, Georg F Weiller, Michael A Djordjevic, Tancred Frickey, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19867115 Fearfully and wonderfully made! Every person was once a sperm and an egg. Those two unique germ cells fused together, and in nine months they turned into a living, breathing, human being. One of the most important stages of this process is when each section of the body, from head to rump, takes on its identity, writes Dr Ruth M Bancewicz, Church Engagement Director at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge. In this context, identity means what shape it takes, and which limbs or internal organs grow there: legs or arms, lungs or pancreas, and so on. The source of that physical identity is DNA: the networks of genes that are switched on or off in each segment of the body, making all the proteins that are needed to grow and develop in the right way. The master-genes that control the whole process are called homeobox, or Hox genes for short. The most beautiful thing about the process of body patterning is the way it brings the dimensions of time and space together in such a tidy way. SWITCH ON The Hox genes are organised into several clusters on the chromosomes, in the order in which they are needed during development and the order in which they appear on the body. As the embryo develops, the cells near the head end activate the first genes in the Hox clusters. The cells just below the head then switch on the second genes in the cluster, and so on. A wave of gene activation passes down the embryo, specifying each section of the trunk in turn. Once a Hox gene is switched on it can stay switched on in the next few sections of cells, and it is the overlapping activity of the genes which gives each section of the body its proper identity. THE WONDER The Wisconsin-based biologist Jeff Hardin often quotes Psalm 139 to express the wonder of embryonic development. 'For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb…your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.' The story of the tidy Hox genes is very relevant to these verses, bringing out the hidden beauty in the process. The more biologists get to find out about how we came to be born, the more we can say, 'I am fearfully and wonderfully made!' 313 October 2024.indd 37 12/09/2024 09:40:04
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