The Christmas television advertisement campaigns have become huge business in recent years as our biggest retailers fight to get the best advertisment for a particular year.  One of my favourites was from one of our major  supermarkets a few years ago, who simulated the famous scene from WW1 in the trenches, when for a few…

Since September, those who attend ‘Well in the Week’ on Thursday mornings at Seaton Road Methodist Church, Felixstowe, have been considering ‘Essentials for Wellness’. We probably all know the essentials for life – food, water, shelter, love, and we could, in these modern times, add a healthy diet, exercise, and mindfulness to the list. But…

We’re on our way to Bethlehem but who will show us the way? THE PROPHETS Journeys can be long or short, easy or difficult, slow or quick.  You might travel alone or in a group.  You might stop along the way.  You might get lost. You might need help to find your way. In ADVENT…

I have not forgotten the phrase that I first heard at school, ‘don’t do what I do – do what I tell you’. The implication of that is that it is possible to steer people one way while actually travelling another way. Those who try to operate like that underestimate the effect of lives lived…

“A couple of weekends ago I went to London to help my son, Richard, sort out his flat. At the beginning of January he is relocating to Singapore for 3 years. On Saturday morning we started to make different piles of his belongings. Items for the skip, items for recycling, items for his local charity shop,…