A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Trinity Sunday 7th June 2020   The Trinity, what a mine field of opinion! This Three in One nature of God (Father Son and Holy Spirit) that we celebrate in the Christian faith is often hotly debated, and I fear it will continue to be so for some considerable time!Read more

A Penny for your Thoughts. 7th June 2020 “And the people stayed home, read books, listened, rested, and exercised. They made art, played games, learned new ways of being, and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. People began to think differently.   And theRead more

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Pentecost? 31st May 2020   What is Pentecost and how did it start? There’s only limited space here, so a truncated version. The original Day of Pentecost is a Jewish festival, coming fifty days after Passover (when the Jews made their great escape from Pharaoh in Egypt). Jews in Jesus’ timeRead more

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – We Are One 24th May 2020   When reading the lectionary for today I could not help but find comparisons between our upturned world and the one those original disciples found themselves in and the difficult journey that they have also endured in recent weeks. What wild swings of emotion theyRead more

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – The Unknown God 17th May 2020   Our thoughts this week are again based on the reading from Acts set for the week (Acts 17: 22-31). This is the account of the apostle Paul debating with the thinkers and philosophers of Athens in the Areopagus – an important place for debateRead more

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Rainbows 10th May 2020 Did anyone see the beautiful double rainbow last week? I don’t know about you but when I see a rainbow I always think of Noah and how God sent his rainbow as a covenant to his people, a sign of hope. Then I thought, like us,Read more