Brian Mountford
Reflection on Fauré's Requiem for All Souls
‘And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.’ John...
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Brian Mountford
- Nov 13
- 4 min
War and Peace and Remembrance
Recently some students asked me why we still observe Remembrance Sunday? Isn’t it out-of-date? The answer I gave was simple – that it is...
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Brian Mountford
- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
Do you ever pray, Dad?
I’m taken aback when Charlotte asks over Sunday lunch, ‘Do you ever pray, Dad?’ I’m very uncomfortable when faced with what I regard as an
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Brian Mountford
- Jan 8, 2020
- 22 min
Religion and its Future
My experience of religion We don’t choose our parents or the time or the culture we’re born into. You might be born into a wealthy family...
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Brian Mountford
- Nov 5, 2018
- 4 min
Diary: being a vicar in secular society
It may be school half term, but the Oxford University term is only three weeks in. My first encounter with this year’s freshers at Corpus...
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Brian Mountford
- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min
Love Island - article for Daily Mail
This is the full version of what the Mail printed in butchered form on 9 June 2018 Before I switched on ‘Love Island’ I was ready to say...
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Brian Mountford
- Mar 27, 2017
- 3 min
Death, Heaven and Motor Neurone Disease
This extract from a recent funeral address struck a chord with an unusally large number of people, so I share it here. I think I know...
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Brian Mountford
- Dec 15, 2016
- 18 min
Meaning of Music
Just found this chapter from an old book of mine which sold but a few copies and was surprised by how good it was! I've edited it a bit....
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Brian Mountford
- Jul 20, 2016
- 1 min
Builder's Labourer
I apologise to those who have been looking here for my latest blog. I have been completely absorbed with my own personal housing crisis,...
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Brian Mountford
- Jun 5, 2016
- 2 min
An Agnostic's Funeral
But he wasn’t really a believer. This is a frequent response when I say to a family planning a funeral or memorial service that they must...
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Brian Mountford
- May 24, 2016
- 2 min
Ethical reading
Bubbly and irrepressibly Jewish, Hindy Najman, the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, urges me to attend...
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Brian Mountford
- Apr 28, 2016
- 1 min
Painting
This portrait of me, painted by Rosalie Watkins who works in Lavender Hill, London, was my leaving gift from the people of the University...
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BM
- Mar 9, 2016
- 2 min
Tradition
What affection we have for ‘Mum, Mum, Mum’* on Mothering Sunday. We know we shouldn’t, but we love it. We recognise the song’s aesthetic...
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Brian Mountford
- Mar 4, 2016
- 2 min
To see oursels as ithers see us - on being painted
The studio is a stark rectangular cube in an old warehouse, a metal framed window at one end and a rough concrete beam across the...
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Brian Mountford
- Feb 26, 2016
- 9 min
Self-identity: A talk given by Brian Mountford
Introduction – two versions of me 1. Self in the mirror: your image, how you see yourself, the clothes you choose etc. Why is to be the...
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BM
- Feb 25, 2016
- 1 min
The Conflicting Self
The more I read Amia Srinivasan’s sermon from last Sunday, the more brilliant I think it is. She talks about the ambiguity of experience:...
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