Em Coley
Love is in the Air!
As we celebrate Valentine's Day the emphasis is on romantic love, a love between a couple. And the Bible has much to say about this. But...
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Richard Butler
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
Season of Light
Christians give a lot of attention to light. We seek to be the light in the darkness. We believe that the darkness cannot overcome the...
Liz Guest
- Jan 24, 2022
- 2 min
Words
There is a new online craze that you may have been lucky enough to have missed. It is called wordle and is online only. It is not...
Mark Dearnley
- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
Reflections
There’s something about the stillness that is often evident at this time of year. The earth in its winter rest with nature dormant awaits...
Alex Huzzey
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
Which way was it again?
Recently there have been a number of YouTube videos showing people doing 'straight line challenges', in which people video themselves...
Margaret Blake
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
And now for something completely different...
This week's reflection comes to us from the talk that was given by Margaret Blake at the Carol Service this past Sunday 19 December....
Margaret Tinsley
- Dec 13, 2021
- 1 min
The Meaning is in the Waiting
When we were newly married, having saved up enough, we bought our first washing machine. Now, over fifty years later, how ridiculous that...
Ruth Dearnley
- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
Walking Home
I hadn’t worn shoes with heels for over 18 months. I was speaking at an event in London, which was a wonderful change to speaking to a...
Mark Dearnley
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
The Waiting
How good are you at waiting? As a child I found the wait for any major event interminable. And the daily countdown on the Advent calendar...
Gill Keir
- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
The Gift of Music
One of the really good things about worshipping together again is to be able to sing. Admittedly it is odd to be muffled by a mask in...
Richard Butler
- Nov 15, 2021
- 1 min
Remembrance and Hope
Remembrance Sunday this year seemed to have a particularly melancholy feel to it with damp mist in the air, leaves deep on the ground and...
Liz Guest
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
A Light that Shines Bright
Over this last weekend I am sure you will have heard the fireworks going of in the night sky with the combination of Diwali, the festival...
Alex Huzzey
- Oct 26, 2021
- 2 min
Speak Up
Proverbs 31:8-9 (NIV) “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge...
Margaret Blake
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
Words Matter
This weekend we have been thinking about the words we may hear and speak about climate change. Words which inform us, inspire us and lead...
Margaret Tinsley
- Oct 11, 2021
- 1 min
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. This last weekend has certainly illustrated Keats' words....
Em Coley
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Hope
I had the pleasure of going on the St Albans clergy conference a couple of weeks ago. It was entitled “Called to Hope”. As we emerge...
Mark Dearnley
- Sep 14, 2021
- 1 min
All that Jazz
There’s something about jazz. It just works for me. I find some contemporary compositions in modern music too complex to grapple with,...
Margaret Blake
- Sep 6, 2021
- 2 min
WOW
This Sunday it was Climate Sunday and after we read Psalm 8 Em said her talk could be summed up in one word – WOW! We live in an amazing...
Richard Butler
- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
Call to Prayer
Anyone who has spent time in a predominantly Muslim city will have found themselves tuning-in to the call to prayer from innumerable...
Alex Huzzey
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Sour Grapes
Sour Grapes “In those days they will no longer say “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge” Jeremiah...
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