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Just a week ago life seemed more or less normal. Now it feels like the whole world is closing down, and no one knows when it will open up again.

We come to church each Sunday, we pray and read our Bibles through the week, to prepare ourselves. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, travelled around Galilee to prepare himself for Jerusalem.

Near the end of our Sunday service at St Martin’s we often have a slot called ‘Ask the Vicar.’ On Sunday a 14-year-old girl enquired, ‘Is God a woman?’

In the wake of troubling news about the founder of L’Arche, Jean Vanier, who received the Templeton Prize at St Martin’s in 2015, Revd Dr Sam Wells has issued this statement.

Not long ago a friend told me about a special moment in his life. He was a student at university, and each week he attended the same seminar.

How can we find forgiveness? How can we restore a relationship when we’ve done something terribly wrong?

In one of Woody Allen’s stand-up comedy routines from the sixties, he said, ‘Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet.