Letter from the Vicarage Church News & Local Events One of my roles at the moment, is to assist the Bishop of Carlisle in his efforts to promote post-Brexit Morland and Newby WI - Visitors are always welcome at our events, especially if you are reconciliation. October is, of course, Brexit month! Whether it will happen or not is, of course, as up in new to the area the air as it ever was, but whatever happens, we are going to need reconciliation. And how is that Open Meeting Thursday 10th October 2019 Vernacular buildings in Cumbria - a talk by June possible after all that’s happened? Hill Morland Village Hall, 7.30pm £3 including light refreshments Well, I think the first thing we need is some kind of realism about what reconciliation might look like. It Brougham Harvest Festival and Lunch cannot look like going back to the kind of unified country we appeared to be before. It’s not just that St WILFRID'S Harvest Festival Service on Sunday 27 October at 11.00 will be followed by lunch Brexit has polarised us. More fundamentally, the world is changing. In his book “the Revolt of the at Brougham Hall Farm. £4.00 in aid of church funds. All are welcome but numbers would be People”, Martin Gurri links the political polarisation we see across the world (from the Arab Spring to helpful. Please contact Sarah Harden [email protected] or 07801099151 Brexit) to the coming of the digital age. It might seem odd at first, but his argument is convincing. It stems from the way we receive and process the information on which we base our worldviews. Prior to Bolton WI Our October meeting will be held on Monday 14th October in the Memorial Hall 2000, information was largely disseminated through books, newspapers or TV. It evolved relatively commencing at 7.15pm. slowly and was controlled by (or channelled through) a central authority. That made it relatively easy to Non-members are always welcome to attend a meeting before deciding to join our group and it have a cohesive society with a shared world-view. But the coming of the digital age was abrupt and is not necessary to be resident in Bolton. cataclysmic. Academics measured the amount of new information being produced in 2001 and 2002 and Morland Home Group found that in 2001 the amount of new information available to humanity in one year (thanks to digital Our first meeting in October will be on Tuesday 3rd at 2.0.m. At 31, Jackson Croft, Morland.. media) was double that of the whole of human history prior to that point. And in 2002 it doubled again. Further meetings will be arranged later. This exponential growth has affected human society profoundly and irreversibly. For one thing, it makes All are welcome For further details ring 01913714455. it impossible to revert to a common worldview. For another, it makes it impossible for any individual (even with the most sophisticated algorithms) to process all the information available. Our reaction has been to Brownies meet during term time on Wednesdays in Morland Village Hall 7:30pm retreat into communities of shared worldviews based on common interests. But the effect is to have our JAM worldview continually reinfo rced by people who think like us and less affected by the mass of Bolton the October session will be on the 16th Oct. contradictory information. Ironically, the more difficult it has become for any of us to know all truth, the Crosby, October 28th at 9.30 more assertive we have become in assuming that we are right! Morland see you in November, enjoy half term Jonathan Sumption QC, in this year’s Reith lectures, charted another effect of this change – an increasing tendency to affect social change by legislation rather than political debate. Why waste time arguing with Morland Mothers' Union people who are “just wrong” when we can simply change the la w? Many of the changes brought about by The October meeting will be held on Thursday 24th October at 7.30pm in Morland Village Hall. legislation are good, or at least well-intentioned, but the long-term effect of by-passing the difficult process There will be a presentation entitled :- of debate and compromise is to erode our cohesion as a society, leaving us instead with a society of "The ABC of Austria .... Appreciation of its Beauty and Customs" winners and losers. It is a process I witnessed with concern in my own legal career. And when the This will be given by John Gore and will aim to reflect this theme using still pictures and video se- quences. winners and losers each account for roughly 50% of the population, we have reached a point of absolute Family, friends and non-members are very welcome to attend. crisis. Now, the world has changed and we are not going to regain a shared worldview. But we do still Hostesses are Beryl and Sue. need to live together. Somehow, we need to find ways of resolving our competing interests to allow us to Ninekirks news live in a single community. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus taught us that human society The summer series of Evensong services begins with loving our neighbours as ourselves, which means supplying the needs of our opponents – have sadly come to an end. What a won- even our enemies – with same care we show ourselves. Ultimately we can never ‘win’, if it is at the derful place for reflection and peace where expense of our neighbour. We can only win if we find a way to care for those who disagree with us and to time stood still. On two occasions we were provide for them, rather than triumphing over them. Perhaps what we most need at this time is a Desperately Seeking Organists joined by The Choir making services even determination to seek out what our opponents most need and provide for them, loving our neighbours as more memorable. Sunshine for all four ser- ourselves, so that we can live together in an uncertain future. Stewart vices added to the enjoyment of the mile walk across the fields for the congregation Across our group of parishes we are short of organists for regular or occasional and their dogs but there was a welcome lift duties across our group of churches. We are able to offer help for any from Hornby Hall for some. Our thanks to The Winderwath Estate for allowing this The North Westmorland News is available via email! keyboard players interested in learning the organ. and for their contribution to the upkeep of the churchyard. The next service will be Please send your email address to: [email protected] If you would be able to play or are willing to learn, please get in touch with Candlemas on Feb 2nd, please come and & receive the newsletter before its paper publication date. David Jones: 01931 714338 join us, but wrap up warm as there is no heating or electricity. i ii From our Registers Autumn Weddings Andrew Brass & Nina Secombe were married at St Lawrence, Crosby Ravensworth on Friday 5 th July. The Wedding season is still in full swing! This autumn there will be a number of wed- Phil Gough & Jo Holman were married at St Peter, Askham on dings across our parishes. You might want to come & cheer on the happy couples, or just Saturday 6 th July. lock them in until the pay up!!! Date Time Couple Venue Stuart Hepburn & Esi Appiah-Anane were married at St Peter, Askham on Thursday 11 th July. 12.10.19 12:30 Michael Cameron & Bethany Armstrong Askham Matthew Kearon & Emily Warrilow were married at St Peter, Askham on Saturday 27 th July. Andrew Dwyer & Jennifer McNamee were married at St Peter, Askham on Tuesday 30 th July. Bernie Vent & Jackie Ryce were married at St Peter, Askham on Saturday 31 st August. Come ye thankful people… ----- Harvest Festivals Harold Akrigg was laid to rest in the Churchyard at St Lawrence, 2019 Crosby Ravensworth on Saturday 29 th June. A service of thanksgiving for the life of Anthony Pattinson took place at St Barnabas, Great Strickland on Friday 16th August. Services in your community: The funeral of Philip Hodgson took place at St Peter’s, Askham on Askham: Sunday 6 th October @ 11.00am, church Friday 30 th August 2019 and his mortal remains were laid to rest in Bolton: Sunday 6 th October @ 6.30pm, church the churchyard. Brougham: Sunday 27 th October @ 11.00am, church th ----- Cliburn: Sunday 6 October at 11.00am, church Cliifton: Sunday 6 th October at 9.15am, church Willow Rose Vandale was baptised at St Lawrence, Morland on rd Sunday 18 th August. Crosby R.: Thursday 3 October @ 2.00pm, church Great Strickland: Thursday 25 th September @ 7.00am, church Indie Corrie was baptised at St Cuthbert, Clifton on Sunday 1 st Morland: Sunday 6 th October @ 11.00am, church September. Thrimby: Sunday 22 nd September @ 6.30pm, church “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice” (Philippians 4.4) Morland Choristers’ Camp Founders’ Day Evensong Each year, on the Saturday closest to his birthday, the Choristers & Friends of the Morland Choristers’ Camp return to sing a special Rector’s New E-mail address Evensong in honour of our founder, Canon Gervase Markham. The service is open to everyone. After a lot of difficulties with not receiving e-mails of late, I’ve changed my e-mail address to: [email protected] nd Date: Saturday 2 November 2018 Please use this address for all future communications.