Television Praise for York school (From York Press)
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Bootham School to feature on Songs Of Praise TV programme
9:34am Saturday 11th August 2012 in News
A pupil at York’s Bootham School is interviewed as part of the filming for tomorrow’s Songs Of Praise programme
A YORK school will be centre-stage on the nation’s TV screens tomorrow when it features on the BBC’s Songs Of Praise programme.
Bootham School was chosen by the programme’s directors when they were looking to “explore the use of silence in religious worship”, and a BBC team has spent half a day at the school filming its morning meeting for worship and interviewing students.
The footage will be broadcast on BBC2 at 4.55pm. Jonathan Taylor, the independent school’s head teacher, said: “As a Quaker school, meetings for worship – as our religious services are described – always include a period of silence.
“Although only a tiny fraction of the school community are from Quaker families, everybody can gain a great deal from time spent together in silent reflection. When our students leave us, they often say this silence is the one thing they miss most in our busy, fast-paced world.”
Comments(5)
Yorkie-Clifton
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10:06pm Sat 11 Aug 12
idlehousewife wrote:Why -- hhaahahaah . Quakers also Praise God . I have read a lot of messages on here but this one tops the lot . Gods Church is a very Large Family .. I look forward to seeing it . Would you prefer to see a service in York Minster with its carpet of turf which was recently laid . hahahahah God will be Praised in every place .
Seems a bit of a misnomer to have Songs of Praise coming from a Quaker establishment!
Hoofarted
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11:53am Sun 12 Aug 12
Being a private elitist school serving the rich. I would have thought God and Jesus would be shaking their heads in disbelief at his ignored teaching about the camel and a the eye of a needle
idlehousewife
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4:50pm Sun 12 Aug 12
ReginaldBiscuit
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9:21am Mon 13 Aug 12
Yorkie-Clifton wrote:People don't want to die, to cease existing, to be worthless ergo God.
idlehousewife wrote:Why -- hhaahahaah . Quakers also Praise God . I have read a lot of messages on here but this one tops the lot . Gods Church is a very Large Family .. I look forward to seeing it . Would you prefer to see a service in York Minster with its carpet of turf which was recently laid . hahahahah God will be Praised in every place .
Seems a bit of a misnomer to have Songs of Praise coming from a Quaker establishment!
Innit.
idlehousewife says...
1:36pm Sat 11 Aug 12