I have recently returned from the East Anglian District Synod. In the afternoon we were led in a Bible Study on Philippians 1:1-9. We were then asked to discuss in groups a set of questions. In true group discussion, it doesn’t matter how long you are given, most of the time was spent discussing the…

I can still remember the day way back in March 1976 when I passed my driving test, the day was the fulfilment of my dream to be able to drive a car, I’d had my first lesson in my Dad’s three wheeler Reliant Regal Supervan iii which looking back was a bit of a grand…

On Tuesday I went to Ipswich, travelling by bus. We only have one bus per hour and it was 25 minutes late but the sun was shining so I didn’t mind waiting. It might have been a different story if it had been raining. There was a “Buddy Driver” on board and I assumed that…

May dew was thought to have special properties – girls who bathed in it were thought to have beautiful complexions; people would go out of their way to walk barefoot or roll in it; men who washed their hands in it were thought to become good at tying knots and making nets. Mothers would wrap…

Voyager 1 ascended into space in the year in which I was in the lower sixth form at school. Ever since then it has been travelling further and further from our planet and sending back images which have enhanced human understanding of things God knows and sees. By the time my son was the age…

Rev Neil Thorogood, Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge, at the time of writing (May 2023). www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/pray/daily-reading He laid the foundation on rock Something to read Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’, and do not do what I tell you? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words,…