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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#339900" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="05820163.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>A Feast of Seasons </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>   </B></FONT><B>  |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Feast of Seasons "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="jewish_festivals.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Festivals and Seasons"><U><B>Festivals and Seasons</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="recipes.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Feasts and Recipes"><U><B>Feasts and Recipes</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><B>Author Profile</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="reviews.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews"><U><B>Reviews</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="purchase.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to buy"><U><B>How to buy</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06dd2122dkelyh.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="065c6b30.jpg" border=0 width="198" height="179" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Margot and Martin</div> <div>  on holiday in Venice</div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Margot Hodson </B></I></FONT><I><B>Author Profile</B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0a8fa860.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="390" ALT="Cherishing the Earth" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="10">Margot is Chaplain of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/chapel/chaplain.php" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/chapel/chaplai"><U><B>Jesus College, Oxford</B></U></A></FONT> and is married to <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hodsons.org/martinhodson" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hodsons.org/martinhodson"><U><B>Martin Hodson</B></U></A></FONT> who is a plant biologist at Oxford Brookes University. Margot has a specialist interest in the Jewish background to Christianity and has taught and written in this area. Margot grew up in Somerset and read Geography at Bristol University and Theology and All Nations Christian College. She has worked as a teacher in secondary schools, and in publishing and education for the Church. Margot was ordained in 2001 and, before moving to Jesus College, was a parish priest in Grove near Wantage in Oxfordshire.</div> <div> The Hodsons have a joint interest in the link beween Faith and the Environment. They are both members of  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.sageoxford.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sageoxford.org.uk"><U><B>Sage</B></U></A></FONT>, Oxford's Christian Environmental Group and Margot is also a director of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk"><U><B>The John Ray Initiative</B></U></A></FONT>, an educational charity that works to develop and communicate a Christian understanding of the environment. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Feast of Seasons "><U><B>Return to A Feast of Seasons home page</B></U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Link to Margot's</FONT><B> </B><A HREF="http://jri.org.uk/brief/jewish.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://jri.org.uk/brief/jewish.pdf"><U><B>briefing paper</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >on an Hebraic understanding of the environment. (This is a PDF file)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><B>NEW</B></FONT> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hodsons.org/cherishingtheearth/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hodsons.org/cherishingtheeart"><U><B>Cherishing the Earth</B></U></A></FONT> has lots of information about our Feb. 2008 book. <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><B>NEW</B></FONT></div> </td> </tr></table></body>