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This question came to me on a recent trip to India.

The weekend of our annual meeting is a good time to think about lay ministry.

This year, Christian Aid Week (14 – 20 May) is focusing on communities in Malawi, whose crops have been struggling with the impact of the climate emergency including unreliable rainfall, storms, flooding and strong winds.

The Coronation of King Charles III starts with the King being greeted ‘Your Majesty, as children of the Kingdom of God we welcome you in the name of the King of Kings’.

In this part of London, we see most aspects of social injustice – poverty, mental and physical ill health, addiction, migration, exploitation, crime, discrimination.

‘Do not be afraid!’ is repeated again and again from Genesis to Revelation.

I’m glad to be back in the saddle at St Martin’s.

Now to the gate of my Jerusalem