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In Mark’s gospel chapter four, Jesus and his disciples leave one side of the lake and travel across the water to another shore.

Since the autumn of last year, the Connection has been ‘women only’ on a Wednesday.

One of the loveliest of the Psalms is 131, in which Israel is pictured as a weaned child resting in the arms of God, its mother.

Losing the ability to talk about religion is like losing a language.

I wonder if you like me enjoy listening to Desert Island Discs.

Lent as I knew it growing up offered a whole theology of self denial, giving up, suffering, with the promise that this harshness would . . . what?

Earlier this week, the government announced the repeal of the 200-year-old Vagrancy Act that made rough sleeping and begging a criminal offence.

After two years of COVID I expect a lot of us can identify with Jesus’ disciples, caught in a vulnerable fishing boat, out on the lake, in the middle of a storm.

This year I’ve made what Michelle Obama calls a ‘swerve’, veering from a career as a barrister to studying for a diploma in the conservation of ceramics.