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This past year may have altered your perspective on life.  Some of the following statements may be worth thinking about…. Life is precarious A nurse is worth more than a professional footballer Spare time isn’t a waste of time A smile is precious Being alone isn’t the same as loneliness Hard work doesn’t guarantee employment...

“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...

It’s a hundred years since parish churches gained the power to run their own affairs, separately from what we now regard as local government. The religious affairs of a parish, as well as its secular business had been controlled by a single committee, which met in the church and was known as the ‘Vestry’. Then, in...

You know the scenario – you go into the lounge, and then wonder what you wanted. Or you need to make a phone call but can’t find the phone. You go to the cash point and forget your pin number.  Or your car keys are lost in the kitchen, but even when you find them...

 – martyrs of the Early Church In the month of Christ’s ultimate sacrifice of Himself for us, the martyrdoms of Carpus, Papylus and Agathonice are well worth remembering. What they said as they died could be said by the many thousands of Christians who are facing persecution all over the world today. Carpus, Papylus and...

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.  Romans 8:28 When you next attend a PCC meeting, which is probably more likely to be by zoom than in person, you could say “Happy 100th Birthday!” to your colleagues....

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...

A short nap in the afternoon improves your memory and keeps your brain more agile. People who nap tend to speak more fluently, have greater mental agility, and remember things better than those who do not break up their day with sleep. Even a five-minute nap can offer your brain a chance to down-time and...

The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, who chairs the Church of England’s Coronavirus Recovery Group, has recently responded to the Prime Minister’s roadmap for reopening the country, saying that “we will refine our own advice for local churches in the weeks ahead. “When the first lockdown was introduced last year, we were – as we...

When it comes to preaching the gospel to 21st century people should we be talking more about shame? And will the Covid pandemic change our thinking? For many years, the Church has focused our gospel appeal around guilt, pointing out that men and women need to repent of their sins and turn to Christ.  Which,...

More than 200 million print books were sold in the UK last year, according to an estimate from the official book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan. It was the first time since 2012 that the volume of physical books sold has exceeded 200million, and it was the biggest volume rise in the books market since 2007,...

– the man who proved there is a God Anselm is a good saint to remember next time someone asks you to prove that there is a God. His brilliant and original Proslogion, written 1077-8, sets out the ‘ontological’ proof for God’s existence. Nearly ten centuries later, it is still studied by theological students as...