A couple of the most frequently asked questions are ‘what is a Spiritualist’ and ‘why are there so many religions rather than just one’? Well the answer to the first is a simple matter and can be found in any dictionary! For instance, ‘Spiritualist’ is defined by the Chambers Dictionary as; a belief that it is possible to have communication with the spirits of dead people, e.g. through a medium and the practice of this,…
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By the time this edition of Littleport Life is printed we will be well into 2015, but I would just ask that you cast your mind back to November last year when the space probe Philae landed on the comet, out in deepest space. The landing was the end of the 10 year Rosetta Mission and without doubt, it is a stunning technical achievement. The aim is to understand the comet and from that, to…
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Many churches in our communities baptise adults and children, by total immersion or the sprinkling of water on the forehead. Christians carry out this ritual today, to follow Jesus’ example, and to show that they believe and obey him. It is a symbol that someone belongs to Christ. Some Christians believe that people should only be baptised when they are old enough to understand what they are doing and able to make the choice to…
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Were it not for the ongoing efforts of man, the fens would consist of water and marsh, not habitable land. It’s easy to feel dwarfed by the sheer vastness of the fens and be in need of human contact, human contact that shares our values and our beliefs. Was it that coming together with shared beliefs that prompted the Littleport Society (the title of the early Methodist congregations) to build their chapel in the early…
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