Posts by Carl Knightly
How can I keep serving?
Imagine going round a stately home and seeing an old-fashioned mangle in the kitchen. Many of us have done that at one time or another and we’ve explained to our…
Read MoreDo I Still Have Value?
If you hear the phrase, ‘because you’re worth it!’ you probably think immediately of the well-known adverts which have the idea of ‘worth’ as the key message and the reason…
Read MoreWhat hotel quarantine taught me about my faith
Ben Boland is an aged care chaplain and author based in Australia and is a Faith in Later Life Church Champion. He recently spent time working in an aged care…
Read MoreSocial Work Leader appointed as first Ambassador
Press Release from Faith in Later Life: Social Work Leader appointed as first Ambassador Faith in Later Life are delighted to announce that the founding Director of the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social…
Read MoreSharing outside our Christmas Bubbles to encourage the most vulnerable
When my granddaughter came home for the weekend from university with masses of laundry, we expected her to return, all washed and ironed, on Monday. Instead, she said she had…
Read MoreNavigating through a Covid Christmas
Did you know that 5,800,000 older people say that the television or their pet is their main form of company? 5.8 million people. And that was before the devastating…
Read MoreAs Society ‘reopens’ are we forgetting about older people?
The Lord watches over the sojourners; He upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked He brings to ruin’. Psalm 146: 9 (ESV) Welcome…
Read MoreWith Society ‘open for business’ again, we must not forget our older people
As a national UK lockdown eases, some people are returning to work and many church buildings are either open again, or making tentative plans to reopen; and even those…
Read MoreHidden treasures of ‘lockdown’.
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He…
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