Friday 28 June's 'Church Times' contains several features on life and spirituality after retirement. For me one of the most thought-provoking comments comes in Andrew Norris' article 'A time of growth' (p. 24): he notes that we typically think of life taking a sort of parabolic curve upwards and then downwards as our 'human powers and capacities' increase into adulthood and then diminish in later life. But, he argues, this is to ignore the important spiritual work of later life - especially around important landmarks such as retirement, which offer an opportunitiy to
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