As has become our custom, we will be sharing daily thoughts via our blog for every day in Lent and Holy Week (with a bonus post on...
In the services for Ash Wednesday there are usually opportunities to recieve the traditional 'Imposition of Ashes' - a smudge of ash...
“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.” ...
What is Fasting? Well the Cambridge Dictionary defines it as "to eat no food for a period of time" whilst the Oxford Learners...
For many of us, Christian or not, being good is the best thing we can be. Many ask: ” Am I a good person?” and for some it is a...
Freedom is a sweet word Freedom is a sweet wordA taste to savour, say it loudExercise your freedomFreedom means you are allowed to...
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...
A reflection by community member, Kate Newman Slow the Snail “I have to be at work in 10 minutes!” What respectable working person...
The temptations that Jesus experienced during his time in the wilderness was not to work out if Jesus was the Son of God, but what...
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...
I am a word person, I kind of trade in words. Words on the page, words in sermons, words in liturgy, words in reports, blog posts, the...
There are some things that just don’t make much sense. Water doesn’t become wine, bread and fish don’t suddenly multiply, the lame...
Our Scriptures, which we call 'The Bible', are filled with metaphor, poetic expression, myths, fables, and stories. These writings...
At the start of the book of Genesis, the first of the Creation myths (there are two, Chapter 1.1-2.3 and Chapter 2.4-3.24) has God...
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,...
During this special season of Lent, we are encouraged to seek a deeper relationship with God through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving....
There is a myth around, both inside and outside the Church (by which I am particularly thinking of the Anglican tradition in the West,...
As someone who has spent most of their adult life wrestling with body image, the discovery of dance (watching and doing) about seven...
