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The celebration of Pentecost this month could be described as a birthday party for the Church, as we remember the gift of the Holy Spirit to the first disciples (Acts 2:1-13). What are we celebrating? God’s Promise:    The disciples obeyed Jesus’ instructions as they gathered in the Upper Room: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but...

The celebration of Pentecost this month could be described as a birthday party for the Church, as we remember the gift of the Holy Spirit to the first disciples (Acts 2:1-13). God’s Promise:   ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised’ (1:4). The disciples met expectantly in prayer for God’s promised...

On 25th May 1961, President John F Kennedy announced to Congress that the United States ‘should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.’ This reflected the United States’ desire to catch up with the Soviet Union in...

The Canadian psychologist and best-selling author, Jordan Peterson, doesn’t believe we should be pursuing happiness.  That could be a disappointment to 328m Americans, who have been taught for nearly 250 years that the pursuit of happiness is their God-given right.  The same pursuit might describe the quest of others who, despite being educated, well-fed, secure...

After many long months during the Covid pandemic we are at last beginning to be able to come together again. Some countries and some areas of some countries will be more open than others and we can only hope, pray and wait for all of us to be able to be ‘free’ again. May, in...

Some time ago I was helping my grandson George into his car seat in the back of my car, when I accidentally banged his head. He started to cry.  ‘Come on, George, be brave,’ I said. ‘But I don’t want to be brave,’ he objected. I guess we all know that feeling. Sometimes life is...

How long until life gets really back to normal, and the pandemic is brought under control? If you feel like asking God that, you’re in good company. This past year has taken its toll on our relationships, our economy, and on our collective mental health. ‘How long, O Lord?’ is a question that has been...

‘And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.’ (Matthew 10:42) During the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been thousands of shining examples up and down the country of people going the extra mile...

 Easter Hope Vicar’s letter Covid-19:  should we have sacrificed the economy, or us? Fighting the pandemic of shame The coming Judgement Day Was the trial of Jesus legal? St George’s Day Reflected Faith:  with all your soul, strength and mind Walking and talking True story ** Editor:  Canon Paul Hardingham considers the eternal promise of...

“So many people right across the country are anxious about employment, anxious about food, isolated from loved ones and feel that the future looks dark.”  These are words from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon on Easter Day 2020. Who would have thought that we are experiencing the same uncertainties this Easter! Yet the Easter story remains...

“So many people right across the country are anxious about employment, anxious about food, isolated from loved ones and feel that the future looks dark.”  These are words from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon on Easter Day 2020. Who would have thought that we are experiencing the same uncertainties this Easter! Yet the Easter story...

Suppose the Government had chosen an entirely different policy for dealing with coronavirus.  Instead of building temporary hospitals and instructing us to wash our hands, observe social distancing, and then locking us down, they had let the pandemic run its course? Hundreds of thousands of people would have died: mainly those who were old, as well...