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On Sunday 27th May we shall be praising God as the Holy Trinity: three in one and one in three. Preachers will be pointing perhaps to the tree with its root, trunk and branches or to a human being with will, heart and mind. Or to symbols of the Trinity with the triangle or three...

Brave – showing courage in all seasons of life Defenders of the Faith – standing for truth when attacks come Baptism – its purpose, practice and power For Good – the Church and the future of Welfare The ISIS Caliphate – from Syria to the doorsteps of India Reimagining Britain – foundations for Hope Vibrant...

My dear Nephew Darren We are finally about to start repairing our medieval church tower. Would that we still paid medieval prices for having it done; there would be a degree of satisfaction in giving the builders a hogshead of ale and 10 sheep once the work was completed. I would even be prepared to...

(Acts 2) From prophecy to fulfilment, from fear to courage, from confusion to conviction, from despair to certain hope, from head to heart, from longing to knowing, from weakness to strength, from paralysis to power. What a difference a day makes – The Day of Pentecost when the Spirit came and everything was different and...

Father, Thank you for sending Jesus to be one of us and to show us how you want us to live. Thank you that He chose to live for us and to die for us. Thank you that when He returned to you, He didn’t leave us to flounder but sent us His Spirit to...

The tax collector had climbed a tree Trying to see what it was all about ‘Come down Zaccheus, I’ll eat at your house’, And Zaccheus’ life was turned inside out. Simon the Pharisee invited the Lord And at the meal a woman came in, With tears and perfume she anointed His feet And Jesus responded...

When we opt not to vote We ought to take note That it’s not been forever like this; Not that long ago It would have been so That we’d have to give voting a miss! Unless we were rich With cloth of gold stitch A Lord or a Peer of the Land A country Esquire...

(from Isaiah 60) Rise and shine – your light has come! Glory of the rising sun! See! God bids us all to shine With the countenance divine! For the earth in darkness lies Hear the lost benighted cries. See! God’s glory now appears! Comfort to the nations’ tears! Raise your eyes and look about! Hear...

O Lord, grant that we may not be like porridge Stiff, stodgy and hard to stir But like cornflakes:  crisp, fresh and ready to serve.   Anon

Lord, grant me a simple, kind, open, believing, loving and generous heart, worthy of being your dwelling- place.     By John Sergieff, Russian priest, 1829 – 1908

It was: 400 years ago, on 23rd May 1618, that the Thirty Years’ War (Central Europe, mainly present-day Germany) began.   One of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history.  Millions of people were killed.  Finally ended on 15th May 1648. 200 years ago, on 4th May 1818 that Britain and the Netherlands signed...

If, like me, you wonder how on earth people coped with the sheer horror of the carnage on the battlefields of the First World War, two pieces of writing suggest an answer. One, the poem ‘For the Fallen’, I wrote  about last month. In this article I would like to consider the poem, subsequently an...