Listen "The tongue is a fire: from the ashes of a Lakeland blaze"
Episode Synopsis
The tongue is a fire. And it burns to be on the receiving end of people’s enflamed opinions, particularly when they are lazily formed and poorly-informed. An encounter between the son of a gorse-burning farmer and his incomer neighbour illustrates this commonplace countryside occurrence; but also points towards how the tongue, well used, can help put out fires.
A talk for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, 5 September 2021.
Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
A talk for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, 5 September 2021.
Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
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