What do you think about Mary the Mother of Jesus? In the Middle Ages Mary was always shown as golden- haired, clothed in white and blue with white skin; she would quite literally be placed on a pedestal in so many shrines and churches . The idea was believers needed her to pray for them…
On Jesus by Douglas Groothuis Wadsworth, 2002 £20 98 pages ISBN 978 0 534 583 941 (Wadsworth Philosophers Series) This is one of a series of well over 70 compact volumes dealing with the work and thought of great philosophers, both classic and contemporary. This book by a scholar (professor of philosophy…
Welcome to Advent at Methodistic. Advent means coming and it is the period before Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. The resources on this page will be updated every day to help us prepare for Christmas day. Click the play button to watch todays daily advent animation brought to us by the East…
About thirty years ago, when our girls were very little, the Church in Bradford that we used to attend held a Christingle service at 4pm on Christmas Eve. Over the years, the Christingle service became a part of our Christmas tradition and we would attend every year, then spend the rest of Christmas Eve with…
On the day that covid vaccines began arriving in the UK my wife, Dawn, saw a newspaper headline which said ‘The day that hope arrived’ and had a picture of a lorry disembarking from a ferry – presumably carrying vials of vaccine. Dawn subsequently used this in an on-line talk and pointed out that in…
Welcome to Advent at Methodistic. Advent means coming and it is the period before Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. The resources on this page will be updated every day to help us prepare for Christmas day. Click the play button to watch todays daily advent animation brought to us by the East…
A hundred years ago my grandparents, and many like them, were having their first family Christmas. They had been married for just over a year and had a new baby (though I am not sure I like to think of the revered aunt Mary like that). Christmas 1918 was close to the end of the…
Welcome to Advent at Methodistic. Advent means coming and it is the period before Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. The resources on this page will be updated every day to help us prepare for Christmas day. Click the play button to watch todays daily advent animation brought to us by the East…
This year, the Lay employe’s were not able to tell the Bible Society Nativity play live, so, they decided to record it on Zoom instead !! We hope you enjoy the video and feel free to join in with the actions 🙂 Merry Christmas from all of the circuit Lay Employee’s
With cranberries, it’s the bounce that counts. According to Science Digest, processing cranberries involves pouring freshly picked berries down a series of step-like boards. At each level, only the berries that bounce over an eight-to-ten-inch barrier pass the test. Each berry gets eleven chances. Those that fail are discarded. Some fruits are judged by their…