Showing everything tagged as Thought for the week

Like many, my reaction to fireworks is to stare dumbfounded (although pet owners will also know of their ability to frighten some animals to the core).

Unless you love online comments sections, there are few debates more tedious than the dating of Christmas.

We have just spent the last 4 Sundays in Advent, a time of waiting and wanting for Christmas to come.

Sunday night, after the Nine Lessons and Carols, sung/read so well at St. Martin’s, I huddled in my warm kitchen in the back of my flat, hiding from the draft crashing through my front windows.

‘The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.’

More than a decade ago, I spent early December on a university choir tour to Germany.

This Advent we have chosen to take Sleepers Wake: Getting Serious about Climate Change by Nicholas Holtam, the Bishop of Salisbury and the former Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, as our Advent book.

My first four months since joining you as Head of Congregational Life at St Martin’s have raced by.

My grandfather won two Military Crosses in the First World War: as a chaplain he left the trenches and went into No Man’s Land and dragged bodies back to safety, not knowing if they were alive or dead.