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The single word title “Voices” immediately brings to mind the old King James rendering of a verse in Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification” (1 Corinthians14v10).  More recent translations generally use the word ‘languages’ instead of ‘voices’ but this weakens what Paul is saying.  Every voice has a meaning; it is sourced somewhere, even musical instruments of the wind variety require a source, an energy to pass through them in order to sound, the same is true for a harp, there must be fingers to pluck the strings.  What voice is sounding in the words to which we give our attention?  From which fountain springs the utterances to which we listen and give heed (James 3v10&11)?   In these last few days I have revisited two of the movies based on the Narnia series of books written by C.S. Lewis, the third has been released over this Christmas/New Year time.