[Magdalen] updated bio

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Fascinating!

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:36 PM Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> Brian posted a roster from 1994 which include bio info for some members.
> Fascinating to read this and see what has changed and what has stayed
> the same in the intervening 26 years.
>
> Still married to Karen, and our children have grown up, and our daughter
> and husband have provided a granddaughter, Martha, now six months old.
>
> I still work in computer software in Cambridge, though I left Smallworld
> in 2000. I still work in "own-brand" databases though, so not much
> change there.
>
> We still live and worship in St Ives, where I now compile the rota for
> the servers and lots of other jobs. I'm still a member of the PCC and
> the deanery and diocesan synods -- but now I am lay chair of the
> diocesan synod, and also a member of the Cathedral Council, and an
> honorary canon of the cathedral.
>
> I'd still very broadly categorize myself as "liberal catholic", probably
> a bit more liberal and a bit less catholic.
>
> I'm still interested in Little Gidding -- now I'm Chair of the Friends
> of Little Gidding.
>
> I'm still interested in liturgy -- now I'm a member of the Liturgical
> Commission of the Church of England.
>
> Interesting to see how many of those seeds of 26 years ago have grown in
> the intervening period!
>
> simon
>
> On 10/03/2020 03.34, Brian Reid wrote:
> > Simon Kershaw                 (simon.kershaw at smallworld.co.uk)
> >                                England: Cambridge
> >                                Biography last updated Jan 10
> >
> >      Born: 31 Jan 1959 baptized: 29 Mar 1959 (Easter Day); confirmed: 30
> >      Mar 1969 (Palm Sunday)
> >
> >      Married: Karen, 1986; 2 children: Jennifer (1989), Alexander (1991)
> >
> >      I'm a computer programmer currently working for a company called
> >      Smallworld in Cambridge (that's England, not Mass.).  We develop and
> >      sell GIS (Geographical Information System) software.  I help develop
> >      and support our `own-brand' database system.
> >
> >      For the last 7 years we have lived in Saint Ives (about 15 miles NW
> >      of Cambridge).  We worship in our local parish church, All Saints,
> >      which is high anglo-catholic.  I take my turn on the server's rota:
> >      m.c., thurifer, acolyte ... my mother is waiting for my son to be
> >      boat boy---it's okay, Mary Ann, we only have a boat boy on high days
> >      and holy days :-); OTOH, we don't have female servers.
> >
> >      I'm also on the PCC (that's the Parochial Church Council), and a
> >      member of the deanery and diocesan synods.  And I'm treasurer of the
> >      local council of churches (Churches Together in Saint Ives, which
> >      brings together CofE, RC, Methodist, United Reformed Church and
> >      Pentecostal).
> >
> >      If pressed, I would describe myself as liberal catholic.  I'm one of
> >      those bigots who supports women priests, and opposes
> freely-available
> >      abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment (esp. for women priests :-)
> >      etc.
> >
> >      We have an interest in community life and are members of the Friends
> >      of Little Gidding.  This place `where prayer has been valid' is
> about
> >      10 miles from where we live and, inspired by Nicholas Ferrar and
> T.S.
> >      Eliot, houses a community of Christian families and singles called
> >      the Community of Christ the Sower.  I am interested in how this list
> >      develops as an Anglican community.
> >
> >      Other topics of interest?  Working for the unity of the church.
> >      Bringing up my children to love and serve the Lord.  And I'm an
> >      amateur dipper in liturgy, liberal theology, relationship to
> science,
> >      church history, what's wrong with the *rest* of the church, etc.
> >      Sometimes I even try and read the Bible.  Occasionally, I've been
> >      known to try and relate some of this to the way I live.
>
>
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda