God allows suffering
How can a God allow such suffering in our world? Wars are undertaken for a particular gain without seeking to estimate the cost of the damage to our world, our...
Should Church Buildings ever open again?
What if we considered not to return to 'normal' but to consider a radical alternative? This post is drawn from an excellent article by @_Andyglover, entitled 'Should Church buildings ever...
Where there’s fire, there’s change
Christmas is irrelevant without Easter, and Easter is pointless without Pentecost. But can Pentecost be transformative today? But we don’t celebrate Pentecost like we do with Christmas nor Easter. What...
Reimagining Church : whom do we serve?
These are notes and, more importantly, questions drawn from a Church on the Margins discussion on 28 May 2020. The key questions Whom do we serve? How is the Church...
Dream Small
We may have been asked in the past to 'dare to imagine'... I know I have asked people to do this. We wanted to consider the whole landscape, to ponder...
Where do you find an Oasis on the commute?
As a teacher I found the daily commute either very tiring or a real blessing. On some occasions the sheer number of cars, the lorry travelling at its maximum speed,...
The Language Barrier
Have we ever have found language to be a barrier before? As a family we once went to Dunkirk for the day. Arriving at a cafe, I took a deep...
Hospitality within this Covid-19 Pandemic
A really thought provoking blog from a respected theologian Simon Sutcliffe. I have written about the Guest and Host before in ''Who is the Guest and Host?". What are your...
It’s ‘we’ not ‘me’…
The very early church - possibly before they got to call themselves church*1 - had some really relevant ways to connect with each other. This is my paraphrase of Acts...
Churches are A-Zooming!
What might we be willing to change now, and as we, hopefully, move towards the relaxation of 'lockdown'? Where as previously ministers, pastors, call them what you will, were possibly...
Where do ‘we’ go from lockdown?
What are the things we need to learn from this lockdown situation? How do we support the return to normality? Currently our buildings are locked, people are not permitted to...
This Easter is so different
Welcome to this, a framework for a Reflective Zoom service, as we consider what Maundy Thursday might mean to us today. We will hear some words, take time to ponder...