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Singapore Part 3

On Sunday the 15th May Richard and I attended the morning service in Hakka Methodist Church. It is very close to his apartment. It was very hot and so the coolness inside the church was a huge relief. We were warmly greeted and shown where to sit. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful…

Revelation and Reason

Revelation and Reason : Wesleyan responses to eighteenth century rationalismBy Arthur Skevington Wood  The Wesley Fellowship, 1992   103 pages ISBN 0 951 633 228 “This book examines the reaction of John Wesley himself together with two of his associates –  John William Fletcher and Joseph Benson – to the challenges of reductionist rationalism in…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 12th June 2022

Trinity Sunday                                  Year C                                                 12th June 2022 Lectionary readings:  Proverbs 8 v1-4, 22-31;    Psalm 8;    Romans 5 v1-5;    John 16 v12-15. The source of Wisdom. “You made us a little lower than yourself. You let us rule everything your hands have made. And you put all of it under our power”.  (Psalm 8 v5,6).…

Jubilee! Taking to the streets.

Weather permitting, the people of Great Britain and around the British Commonwealth will be spilling out into the streets this weekend to celebrate seventy years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. You don’t have to be a staunch royalist to appreciate all that she has done over the last seventy years and still continues…