Homelessness Sunday
“Is it not a joy to have friends coming to visit you from afar” So wrote Confucius expressing a truth that is still celebrated by millions of people around the world this Chinese New Year
Epiphany Sunday – 5pm service
Journeys feature heavily in the Christmas story. There are the physical, geographical journeys of Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
I wonder how you feel about your body.
The Second Sunday of Advent
I wonder what your favourite film of all time is? One of the top of my list would have to be Ken Loach’s Kes.
The First Sunday of Advent
It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming…Football’s coming home
Epiphany Carols
I’d gone to one of the best social enterprises in the city. It was widely known. I’d used it as a customer: they did a nice line in house removals and lawn care; and were a good source of picture frames. It was a great place to take students on my ethics and social engagement course: they could accommodate a lot of students at one go, tolerate their questions, and make their community open to scrutiny and enquiry.
Epiphany Sunday
The poet Mary Oliver’s ‘Instructions for living a life’ from her poem Sometimes, will, I think, help to shape our reflections about this feast of the Epiphany which we celebrate today. In a line from that poem, she says: “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
