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Letters from 1 to 7 February 2010

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All in it's proper place

I'm sure you will have received letters about this already, but, here goes. The capital city of New Brunswick Province in Canada is St. John (singular). The capital city of the Province of Newfoundland is St. John's (possessive)...and all this from a native of Calgary, Alberta. Many thanks. I enjoy the website. Keep up the good work (singular.)

Robert Griffiths
St Benedict's Anglican Church
High River, Alberta, CANADA
3 February 2010

(Editor: Blush. Thank you. And we've even been to both places. Usually we can tell that we're near St John from all of the Magic Mountain bumper stickers.)

Almost?

Just read thy article for the week. Excellent one, as (almost) usual. It speaks to me, because I own to the fact that I am one of those whose viewpoint about thy acronym has some unfathomable Freudian links with what I did (or did not) receive in my childhood while going through the occasionally painful process of bcoming an Anglican.

Having attended the same church on and off for some 25 years now, I must admit that a lot of the changes that have come about since I first started going there are not to my liking. Had I the inclination I'd have written our various vicars a mailbagfull of letters protesting this and that. But alas! we grow up and the mistily remembered teachings and traditions that we hold on to from our youth usually dont mean much nowadays. And so I think that for proper functioning of the House of God, that the older I get the more of these acronymous (my word) concepts and ideas I need to shed, along with the hair whose loss I bewail anytime I have to go out on a date...sorry, a chance encounter in the church between Boys Brigadier and Girl Guide, I nearly said.

It's not really necessary to add on other viewpoints to the faith you have received as we grow older - we can feel free to live in our own world in that respect - but we should be open to said ideas and viewpoints.

And I had no idea that Canadians drank tea.

Obi Udeariry
St. Andrew's, Aladinma, Owerri
Owerri, NIGERIA
netwalker55@yahoo.es
4 February 2010

(Editor: We usually find coffee more effective in the morning, rather favouring fresh-ground New Guinea Highlands beans.)

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