Dec 16, 2021 | Articles, News
Christmas reminds us that meeting face to face is both a blessing and a challenge. As I write many of us are looking forward to being able to enjoy Christmas worship in person. It’s hard to capture exactly what is special about being physically present to each other....
Sep 8, 2021 | Articles, News
‘To cherish and strive for a Church that welcomes all shades of faith and keeps the sacramental table open for all – the proud, the foolish, the misguided and the over-zealous – takes courage, tenacity and perseverance. In a fractious and divided world; in a time of...
Aug 11, 2021 | Articles, News
Forgiveness can be thoughtfully examined theoretically through an integrated lens with a knowledge base in social work, sociology, and theology. However, intimately experiencing it seems to me to create a richer awareness of what forgiveness is. My musing on the...
Aug 9, 2021 | Articles, News
I have a friend who speaks often of ‘the vagaries of life’, which, he says, beset us all. This is so true. This week has been a bit like that for me. Last night, as I was writing this article, I received a phone call to say that a lovely young friend, someone I...
Jul 6, 2021 | Articles, News
As a young child I was an avid reader of newspaper comic strips. Along with Fred Bassett and the Wizard of Id one of my regulars was Andy Capp. Andy lived somewhere in the north of England and was never drawn without his cap pulled down over his eyes and a cigarette...
Jun 11, 2021 | Articles, News
Renew Anglican Church recently celebrated our 4th birthday, and on that day we were thankful to be able to share in the baptism of two members of Renew; a woman, Prabha, and her teenage son, Theo, who have become followers of Jesus over the past few years through...