I have a special place that I often go to when I’m over in Washington D.C US. I make my pilgrimage up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial....

It is said that a frog will jump out of boiling water unless the water is heated up so gently that it never notices that it is in boiling...

On a wet Monday morning following the half term week we are just a bit too far away from Spring to feel as uplifted as we may wish. The...

Where do you seek wisdom from? The newsletter which comes with my weekly vegetable delivery is entitled ‘Wisdom to live by’ and from it I...

The feast which marks 40 days since the birth of Jesus, at Christmas… The feast which marks the visit to the temple by Joseph, Mary and...

Yesterday Junior Church started a new series for this term looking at the Miracles of Jesus. We thought about which miracles we could...

I woke up Sunday morning to the news that there was a delay to the much hoped for ceasefire after 470 days of war in Gaza. By the end of...

Before we forget about them for another year, I would like to pay tribute to the humble Christmas card.  We were so lucky to have Cards...

Today is the start of the season of Epiphany – the manifestation of the gospel to the Gentiles. As we welcome the wise travellers to the...

Is Christmas a time for doing puzzles in your household? During Advent, our choir has been singing the “Advent Antiphons”. These words...

One of my favourite places to walk near St Albans is along Rose Lane which heads north out of Wheathampstead. However dark or grey the...

The Advent wind begins to stir With sea-like sounds in our Scotch fir, It’s dark at breakfast, dark at tea, And in between we only see...

Our All Age Service to mark the start of Advent was entitled “Longing for Light”. We spent some time thinking about what we are longing...

Because we so badly need truth. As our days get steadily darker, we have seen in so many different contexts, so many different areas of...

In 1918 at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month the agreement to end the First World War was assured. This began...

As a frequent cyclist in London for decades, I often pass groups of tourists marvelling at some iconic sight. Unless they are a dangerous...

This weekend I walked a stretch of the South Downs Way from Pyecombe (near Hassocks on the Thameslink line) to Amberley. The first day...

We are used to seeing displays of Christmas cards in our shops – in fact, we now have ‘Cards for Good Causes’ available in our church...

On Sunday we spent some time thinking about the vision for our church, which can I think be summarised in one word – Growth . Mark talked...

Our world is increasingly troubled and troubling. So, in our season of harvest, I have turned to our time honoured Christian tradition of...