Dear Friends, I am wading my way through the four and a half hours of the BBC’s coverage of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant first shown live on Sunday 5th June, marking the final of four days of national and commonwealth celebration with an audience of over a billion people worldwide. Days like this make…
Congratulations to Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee …
Dear friends, This time of the year is always special for me, I always look forward to Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. In my past life the biggest incentive was that it was the first Bank Holiday of the year, which I used to look forward to as I set out to work on dark…
Dear Friends, I think that it matters little whether you are a royalist or not, the platinum Jubilee at the beginning of June is a landmark event in all our lives. Bearing in mind that our Queen was only 25 years old when her father died and she took the weight of being the head…
On the Methodist website is this picture from the Methodist Modern Art Collection. As I look at it, I see …
Dear Friends, The seven weeks between Easter and Pentecost always feel a bit strange to me, it is as though we remain in a kind of hiatus, but I think that a bit like the season of Lent, we have an opportunity to reflect. I remember being at a meeting once where we shared Holy…
Pastoral Letter – East Anglia District Chair of the District – Revd. Julian M. Pursehouse April 2022 Dear Friends, It has often been suggested that the birth of the Christian Church corresponds to the events of the Festival of Pentecost, as recorded in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. The Gospel writer Luke…
Dear Siblings in Christ, Holy Week and Easter may still be a couple of weeks away, but Spring has arrived. The daffodils in my garden are blooming. In our neighbourhood, the magnolia trees are looking beautiful. And the gorse on Rushmore Heath is bright yellow. Easter resurrection is in the air with its hope and…
Dear Friends, There is fresh optimism as we face Easter 2022, we are preparing to share events that have not happened for two years, and I am waiting in eager anticipation as we journey through Lent. Looking back to Easter 2020, we were just a fortnight into the first lockdown, and we were starting to…
Pastoral Letter – East Anglia District Chair of the District – Revd. Julian M. Pursehouse March 2022 Dear Friends, I am writing this letter with a heavy heart at the beginning of the Season of Lent not least because we are witnessing a truly awful and sickening act of terror in the heart of Europe.…