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Are you tired? I was speaking with a member of our congregation this week who told me he was “tired to [his] bones.”

We have been beset by some serious illness in my, now virtual, office of the Diocese in Europe.

At this time of immense uncertainty in our church I have been touched by the waves of compassion, generosity and care demonstrated by members of our community.

Working at The Connection involves dealing with crisis all the time.

I write this listening to a blackbird sing outside my living room window.

This old adage couldn’t be more relevant, when daily images on the news express plainly what words alone cannot fathom.

I’m writing this from my beloved and broken Minneapolis.

Last year my partner, Christos, and I attended the baptism of our friends’ daughter at St Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Bayswater.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Those words, with which Charles Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities, sum up our experience of the last ten weeks at St Martin-in-the-Fields.