If there is one thing that stood out during my recent visit to England, it is a deep sense of history. In Cambridge there are banners flying that celebrate the 800 years that the university has been in operation, from 1209 to 2009! At the Tower of London, we walked on cart paths and wide walkways that have been in use for a thousand years. London itself began as a village some 2,500 years ago. I spoke in a church that was 350 years old. In contrast, the university I attended began in 1926, and the town where we now live is less than 200 years old. My church began 14 years ago. England has survived through wars, famine, plague […]
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