“Light Perpetual” is the title of the new book by author Francis Spufford. The image of light as in St. John’s Gospel features throughout the book. The Background: In 1942, a V2 rocket attack on the New Cross Road branch of Woolworths killed 168 people, 15 were aged 11 or under. The novel is written…
Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B 25th April 2021 Lectionary Readings: Acts 4 v5-12; Psalm 23; 1 John 3 v16-24; John 10 v11-18. Seizing the opportunity and responding to God’s love for us. Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and told the nation’s leaders and elders: “You are questioning us today about…
KJB : the book that changed the world dvd, 2010 94 minutes £5.99 Presented by John Rhys-Davies and scripted by Murray Watts, this film tells the amazing tale of events leading up to the birth of the King James Bible. Looking back 6 or 7 centuries with the help of some dramatised episodes, the presenter…
During Antarctica’s nine-month winter, the continent is engulfed in darkness and the temperature sinks to -115 F (-82 C). Flights are halted from late February to November, leaving workers at scattered research stations isolated and virtually cut off from outside help. Yet in 2001, two daring rescue missions penetrated the polar winter and airlifted people…
The residents of Wendley Drive in Meanwood, Leeds have had a regular weekly slot on the BBC’s One Show for the last year. They started bringing their chairs outside one night a week and sitting by their gates and chatting with their neighbours, it was another of those occasions when viewers could listen to the…
Exodus 16:3 “In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt. There we sat round pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this…
The last twelve months has brought into focus the different ways we access news and the reliability of it. Years ago news spread by word of mouth with reliable and unreliable sources muddled up together, with the local gossips adding the necessary spin to sensationalise the otherwise dull. The previous President of the United States…
Those who follow Rev Joan’s Facebook page will have seen her lovely collection of photographs. One which caught my eye recently was the photograph of the Way of Life sculpture in Ely Cathedral. It brought back memories as Ray and I went there not long after it had been erected and it is really magnificent. …
Over Easter I have been re-watching the TV series “BROKEN” written by Jimmy McGovern, now available on DVD. Accompanying this I have been studying a Lent Course produced by Church of England, Birmingham. The course & viewing are so powerful & challenging that I have resolved to revisit every Easter. It’s important to hear the…
This year the Ipswich Circuit have chosen Talitha Koum as their chosen charity.