Morality : Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan SacksHodder & Stoughton, 2020 365 pages £8 ISBN 978 1 473 617 339Also available on Kindle and as an Audiobook. Reading this book has been a rich and rewarding experience, both instructive and inspiring.If ever there was a case for seeing the world as…
There was a time when my dad was choir master at our local Church, and I understand that one of the things he often said “think about the words you are singing” and I have often remembered that as I have looked at a hymn, been delighted, because it was one of my favourites and…
Luke 4:3-4 The devil said to him, ‘if you are the son of God, tell this stone to become bread.’ Jesus answered, ‘it is written: “Man cannot live by bread alone”.’ We all know what it is to feel a bit peckish, even to suffer from hypoglycaemia because we have an imbalance between the energy…
The truth of God is a wonderful asset to a Christian. Joni Tada likened the value of God’s truth to an experience in her childhood. She wrote, “At four, I was too young to have my own horse, and I’m not sure a horse fit for a four-year-old could have kept up with my father…
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…
I am writing this immediately following the return to the UK of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori following their detention in Iran. Most of us will have no idea how it feels to be held without reason and without any idea when or if release will come. Similarly, ordinary people condemn such dreadful treatment of…
The latest issue of Grapevine Magazine – the magazine for the East Anglia district of the Methodist Church has just been released. You can download it by clicking the image below :
While I was washing up the other morning and looking out of the kitchen window, I was watching the birds eating me out of house and home with the seeds on the bird table. What a wonderful sight – there were sparrows and our faithful robin and his wife (I think!) and the blackbird and…
Our 10 minute service this week reflects on Psalm 119:10 and we sing To be in Your presence.
Acts 17:11 They searched the Scriptures daily to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. Enjoying a meal recently, as one of a party of five, two of us were bemoaning the constant repetition of some of the modern Christian songs and I apologised to a younger member of the party because she may…