Showing everything tagged as Thought for the week

There is a lot of mythology surrounding my birth.

I’m not the first Christian to wish we could just ‘skip to Easter.’

Happy Saint Urho’s Day (A Finish-American-Minnesota celebration) today.

Trump: ‘You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.’
Zelenskyy: ‘I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious, Mr. President… I’m the president in a war.’

The other day I was browsing through my regular rotation of news outlets and came across a story about a cat in Australia that had made three flights between New Zealand and Australia in just 24 hours after being forgotten on a plane.

I was very struck by part of a Thought for the Day by Revd Giles Fraser on BBC Radio 4 on February 11.

A couple of weeks ago the western church celebrated the feast day of St John Chrysostom, one of the Fathers of the Church.

A week ago, I was at a wedding where the two well chosen readings were Psalm 121 (I lift up my eyes to the hills – from where will my help come?

There is so much on social media and in the news at the moment that worries, depletes and fills with despair.