Thought for the Month November 2025 I tend to think that the Epistle shouldn’t be read in church. It’s usually knotty in argument and not easy to take in fully at one go. It doesn’t work well when read in a “churchy” voice – it demands someone like Paul, truculent, opinionated, uncompromising. Jeremy Clarkson wouldRead more

Thought for the Month October 2025 (plus Harvest supplement) Leviticus 24: 19-20 (NIV) 19 Anyone who injures their neighbour is to be injured in the same manner: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. Below are questions which would take a far greater theologicalRead more

A Thought for September 2025 God, where are you in all this? There doesn’t seem to be anything good going on in the world right now, don’t you think? When you watch the news, read the newspaper or overhear a polite conversation, the status quo is more often one of doom and gloom than anythingRead more

Thought for the Month August 2025 “Not not a Christian” Home (where, as Paul Simon says, my thought’s escaping) figures a lot in the Bible. In the Old Testament, the House of God travelled as a tabernacle with the Israelites as they searched to find and secure a homeland (an ongoing narrative, as we knowRead more

Thought for the Month – July 2025 Last Sunday at Cooksmill Green, we celebrated our 160th anniversary. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, we had an inspiring service and enjoyed a picnic lunch together in the garden after. All ages together, everything it seems was in harmony – some might say itRead more

Thought for the Month – June 2025 “Man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if they had to be restrained by fear of punishment, and hope of reward after death” – Albert Einstein Einstein theRead more