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.
Psalm 24: 1-2 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters In November this year the city of Glasgow is hosting the COP26. This is the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. It will be the…
Third Sunday of Easter Year B 18th April 2021 Lectionary readings: Acts 3 v12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3 v1-9, Luke 24 v36b-48. Letting go and letting God. The psalmist says “I can lie down and sleep soundly because you, Lord, will keep me safe”. (Ps4 v8). The writer is confident that…
God, Stephen Hawking and the multiverse : what Hawking said and why it matters by David Hutchings and David Wilkinson SPCK, 2020 210 pages £9.99 ISBN 978 0 281 081 912also available as an ebook There are so many plaudits from scientists that there must be something very special about this book. Indeed there is, for…
While on furlough from missionary service in Africa, Robert Moffatt (1795-1883) spoke in England about his work. A young medical student in the audience had hoped to serve on the mission field in China, but that land was closed. He listened as Moffatt described a frequent sight in Africa. “There is a vast plain to…