Showing everything tagged as Thought for the week

As London becomes aglow with lights, alive with merriment and frantic with various gift buying and giving, it can feel easy to almost unconsciously slip into our regular festive rhythms, rarely stopping to consider why we maintain these rhythms and traditions.

When I picked up Fredrik Backman’s newest book, My Friends (2025), I expected to find characters I’d love, and did: four teenaged friends (loyal, troubled, risk taking, dependent on each other, working through complexities with parents and in themselves).

As I write this I‘m looking at a picture of a group of about 40 people carrying St George’s crosses and Union Jacks at an anti-immigration protest in Dartford.

All Saints’ Day, which we have celebrated recently is not about a gallery of perfect people.

‘Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness.’ Psalm 37: 3.

Over the past month, The Connection has been running a campaign to raise awareness about a shocking fact.

It has been a momentous week in the Middle East.

The ministry of healing is offered today.

Robert Hawker, born in Plymouth in 1803, was an eccentric who moved in 1834 to Morwenstow, the most northerly parish in Cornwall, which hadn’t had a vicar for over a century.