ADVENT (On a theme by Dietrich Bonhoeffer) Look how longthe tired world waited,locked in its lonely cell,guilty as a prisoner. As...
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr spoke often of freedom, of the dream of justice, and the hope of equity. Though his words come from and...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings A free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his...
For those of us who grew up in the UK in the 1980s Wham were a phenomenon. Their perfect pop was the kind of music that people seemed...
There is deep in the soul a hope, a longing for what it might actually be like to feel a sense of freedom. For our siblings who are...
The Church has a mixed relationship with creativity and the arts. The puritan influence on the Church, including the Anglican Church,...
As someone who has spent most of their adult life wrestling with body image, the discovery of dance (watching and doing) about seven...
One of the encouragements in our Christian journey is to learn to let go of worry. Worry is that unproductive concern about what might...
I wonder how many folk do not look forward to Lent. Words like ‘sacrifice,’ ‘discipline,’ and ‘self-denial’ are often used in ways that...
We are called as followers of Jesus to a place of deep care for the world and its people. We are not called to be detached from the...
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than...
"When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel." ― Eloise Ristad On the...
Today Today I’m flying low and I’mnot saying a wordI’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must,the...
Some believers seem to think that faith is a closed system, a big block of truth to which we have to assent (or not, and bear the...
There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be...
Many of us live our lives trying to meet the expectations of other people, of the society around us, and even of our selves. We are...
In her book Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation, Madeleine L’Engle remarked that “all God ever wanted from us is to allow...
We are loved as individuals, loved by God for exactly who we are - not despite who we are, as some seem to think. Alongside this value...
There were two and a half years between the declaration of Emancipation of 1863 (as remembered in the US as 'Juneteenth') and the...
This year I discovered that today, Holy Saturday, is also known as 'Silent Saturday' in some traditions of the Church worldwide. This...
