Like many other British Baptist pastors I have been part of ecumenical services at War Memorials in towns and villages in the heart of the English countryside. As a teenager I was base drummer in a Scout band which accompanied the Royal British Legion Parade in a small village near Bradford. This year I experienced the event in a very different way – at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Prague. A Czech military band and honour guard were there, the “padre” was in place – the Revd Professor David Holeton, a very good friend of IBTS, the British Ambassador, the British Military attaché complete with spurs (he is from…
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