RICHARD’S REFLECTION ON 2020 20 years In a couple of months, I will be celebrating 20 years in Ordained ministry. I was 33, Angus was 8 and Hebe was 5. I look back with thanks and gratitude. It’s been quite a journey for us as a family. I was ordained at Southwark Cathedral and I […]
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Lent is a gift to the church. It’s a time of training. It’s a chance for us to discipline ourselves, of getting ourselves ready for activity. It’s not the activity itself. It’s part of an annual rhythm. A time of preparation. Traditionally it was a time of preparation for Easter and for baptism. A time
Dear Parents As a team we are all so aware of the challenges all parents are facing right now. We know that there is a broad mix of things coming together – home-schooling, normal work concerns, managing work from home, everyday family concerns, keeping the house together, money worries, dealing with our own frustrations, guilt,
I believe in an open world, a world of possibilities and choices, a world of decisions and actions, a world of desire and will. The probability is that you do too for this is how we live. Every day we interpret the world and make sense of our lives as if it is open, not
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It’s different this time around It’s different this time around. In the first lockdown it was already spring, and the days were warm. Things were hard, but united by a sense of shared sacrifice, it felt that we were all making a difference. A naive confidence that we would be out of it all soon
Every New Year brings with it a mix of hope and anxiety and as we know, January is always a harder month for our general mood level. This year will be like others. Some of us will struggle and others will display a more optimistic outlook. This is normal. What is different this year is
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One of my favourite prayers in the New Testament is Paul’s prayer for the church in Ephesus (Chapter 3:14-21) and I echo it for all of us as we start this year and you might want to make it your own as you pray for yourselves, and for others you know as you start this
