The Rev Susan Bowden Pickstock, Rector of the Saxon Shore Benefice. We shouldn’t spend all our time ‘doing’ at the expense of thinking, says The Rev Susan Bowden Pickstock.
These days I often find myself in a graveyard, in fact I’ve grown very fond of all my churchyards, and the people in them. One of my responsibilities is to oversee the stones and their inscriptions.
How fascinating, then, to learn about an ancient Roman. Scipio Barbatus’ epitaph is a pithy few lines on a stone slab. It says who he was and what he did. In contrast Emperor Augustus writes […]
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