It is christmas!
We all approach Christmas differently. The good woman who used to look after my aged parents hated it. She had indelible memories, when she was younger,...
28.12.2024
9:15
21.12.2024
13:29
O KEY OF DAVID!
‘O key of David ...what you open no one else can close.’ So sings the church...
14.12.2024
12:15
SING A NEW SONG
As Advent gathers momentum the theme of joy dominates. All this Sunday’s readings announce it. Zephaniah:...
7.12.2024
9:45
A DOSE OF HOPE
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;...
24.11.2024
16:53
The messiah, The king
Imagine the shock of Saul at Damascus when he realised ‘this Jesus’, whose followers he was...
16.11.2024
13:59
‘THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED …
… and the moon will lose its brightness.’ These are hard-to-handle words of Jesus in Mark...
9.11.2024
15:02
THE KING OF SPAIN
One image that stays with me all this week is not the American election but the...
2.11.2024
15:31
A GRINDING STONE AND A WINE PRESS
In the beginning of the Christian story there were the ‘Jesus followers’, who, when they spread...
26.10.2024
19:25
His eyes were opened
Mark writes in a fresh engaging style that draws us into the scene. Take the Bartimaeus...
19.10.2024
19:48
He offered his life for others
Our short text from Isaiah today is repeated - and fulfilled – in the last words...
13.10.2024
7:01
SELL EVERYTHING
‘Go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor … then come...
5.10.2024
16:13
MARRIAGE
Marriage is the subject of our readings this Sunday and one, who has not married, might...
29.9.2024
21:06
His majesty’s loyal opposition
Sometime in the 1820s this phrase was first used to describe the party out of power...
