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When I was a kid my friend, Robbie, and I built a cubby and we left it alone for a while until it became infested with spiders. We decided to get rid of the spiders by burning polystyrene. We managed to trap ourselves inside the cubby and got polystyrene smoke in our lungs. Robbie’s mother…

Bishop Jonathan Holland, Executive Director, Ministry Education Commission ‘Synod’ comes from the Greek words ‘syn’ and ‘odos’, meaning ‘to walk together along a path’. A Synod, then, is a partnership: the Archbishop’s hopes and desires in dialogue with the hopes and desires of the clergy and the laity. In a way, it is very democratic,…