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...
In my youth, Christians were not renowned for being joyful - strict, disapproving, judgemental, these were the words which many of my...
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...
“God doesn’t give in order to acquire. God loves without self-seeking; that’s at the heart of who God is. God gives for the benefit...
“Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.” ― Langston...
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than...
Lamenting is expressing the deep pain we feel at the injustice of the world, of life, of death, of loss. It's a profound and painful...
"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...
One of the things St John the Divine has been known for over many years is its work in Advocacy for the the full inclusion,...
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...
Our modern world seems to thrive on polarities, in separating us from one another, in creating a culture of 'us and them' - where we...
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...
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” Anne Lamott, Traveling...
When I was very young, the things I made, the pictures I painted, the excited discoveries I made were celebrated by my family, my...
THE FOURTH SIGN OF THE ZODIAC (PART 3) I know, you never intended to be in this world.But you’re in it all the same. So why not get...
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...
In a dog-eat-dog world where the much misunderstood idea of an 'Alpha' (see this Ted Talk for a beautiful breakdown of the true Alpha...
Long before I became a Christian, the account of Jesus lovingly washing his disciples’ feet stood as a guiding inspiration for me, in...
One of my favourite representations of Jesus is 'The Laughing Christ,' or more accurately 'Jesus Christ, Liberator' by Canadian Artist...
There were two and a half years between the declaration of Emancipation of 1863 (as remembered in the US as 'Juneteenth') and the...
Jesus said "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." Luke 23:34
This year I discovered that today, Holy Saturday, is also known as 'Silent Saturday' in some traditions of the Church worldwide. This...
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there...