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• ChastMastr Shipmate

  April 1

  OMG who was he on the Ship?
• Spike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus

  April 2

  I don’t think he was on the boards, but he was a regular writer for the magazine
• Leorning Cniht Shipmate

  April 2

  http://www.ship-of-fools.com/features/columnists/strangely_warmed/index.html is some of his writings on the Ship.
• Stercus Tauri Shipmate

  April 3

  CharlesRead wrote: »

  I don't know if this has been noted elsewhere on the Ship, but former Ship contributor Andrew Rumsey has a new job. I'm personally looking forward to him coming to work and minister in my area- he is a creative thinker and generally well-liked as a very popular and engaging bishop.

  
  An irrelevant aside, but one of life's odd little connections... When rather young we would ride our bikes out to Radwell to play in the River Ivel that was mentioned in the linked article. I had never heard of the chalk river pilgrimage, but I clearly remember the mud! Dr Rumsey sounds like a tonic for the church.
• mark_in_manchester Shipmate

  April 3

  Leorning Cniht wrote: »

  http://www.ship-of-fools.com/features/columnists/strangely_warmed/index.html is some of his writings on the Ship.

  
  'Strangely Warmed' was a book of his, which I find I still have - I liked it. So did someone else (in the blurb) - 'Pious claptrap and hand-wringing sanctimonious drivel. If that is what you are expecting you are going to be sadly disappointed. These meditations from a parish priest are witty, erudite, self-deprecating, eloquent and thoughtful. They are even quite short. Strangely Warmed? Yes, actually I was.' None other than the editor of the Eye, who (like Mr Rumsey) is also looking somewhat older than he did.