Welcome to Advent 2024 - The Inside of Love
Thank you for signing up for this year's series. It's wonderful to be walking the path through Advent with you. I've written a few thoughts, below, about the series and the practicalities. Please do read them carefully before we begin. Thank you!
By the way: my wife Katharine and I look after the running of the series, which means - most importantly - that we're able to preserve a personal touch throughout. However, it does also mean that we might occasionally miss something!
Please contact us straight away if you ever think you've missed an e-mail or we haven't responded to your enquiry! We're here for you!
We start on Monday Dec 2.
I'll send your reflections to arrive before sun-rise (in the UK). There are no e-mails at the weekend.
Avoiding technical hitches and glitches! A few practical tips.
Crucially: Sometimes group e-mails like this get blocked if your computer thinks it's spam. A good way to avoid this is to put my e-mail address into your contacts list - briandraperuk@gmail.com. Please do that now.
If you don't receive your e-mail, check your junk-mail folder first, and if you can't find it there, let me know and I'll send it to you personally without delay.
Your e-mail provider will have a setting for 'safe senders' or what they call a 'white list' which you can put me on, too, so that it sees that I'm friendly and not sending you junk. Here is a really useful website that provides 'safe sender' instructions for most of the main e-mail platforms.
Responding via the 'RSVP' forum.
I'll explain how to respond once we get going.
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You'll also have the chance to use the 'chat' during my Advent livestreams on YouTube, where there's always a rich and moving sense of community engagement.
The reflections will also be posted on a private web page for you.
I will also post the daily e-mail collection on a private web-page here, each day. It's where the whole collection will build up, day by day, so you can always look back through it afterwards, too.
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Background and spirituality
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The series will reflect my own contemplative Christian perspective. I'll draw on different authors, and reference as much as possible as I go, in case you enjoy further reading.
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