Like many of us, I love visiting churches. I grew up in the south-west and learnt my first history in old country churches, rich in...

Life is often busy and hectic. The responsibilities we carry can mean we feel we should be on the go all the time, meeting the demands...

Next Sunday 23rd April at 3pm anyone in the UK with a 4G or 5G phone which is switched on will receive a test message to their phone. It...

So today, Monday 20 March, is the Spring Equinox. The day when the length of the day is 12 hours, exactly matching the length of the...

As part of the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the Queen's Green Canopy set out to create a living legacy of a million trees planted in...

It is sometimes really difficult to pray. Our world seems increasingly full of intractable problems. Which is why it is such a relief...

One of the sights of beauty at this time of year is the abundance of beautiful and delicate white snowdrops. These heralds of spring are...

Take hold of the life that really is life We are now in the season of Lent. Some people may relish the time to reflect on their lives and...

Austen Farrer wrote that if our faith is not to be walled-in, we must spread our recognition of God as widely as our mind and imagination...

John 13 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know...

We had great fun with balloons in church on Sunday! The balloons acted as an illustration of difference - a balloon that hasn't been...

I wonder what you are waiting for? That might seem a strange question to ask as Christmas was over a month ago and the endless month of...

“The country is going to the dogs”. How many times have we heard ourselves and others say this, in exasperation and sadness that things...

‘Little things please little minds’, I seem to remember, was a saying in my school days. Well, perhaps it was never entirely fair. These...

Do you remember how you first encountered Jesus? It may have been a friend who led you to find faith, or a visit to church, or family...

As we rush around doing all the last minute tasks: buying presents, wrapping them, cooking, cleaning……and all that we could not do last...

As many of you will know, last Christmas my husband was in the middle of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment for cancer. It was a...

Yesterday was an important day! Why I hear you ask – well the new King or Queen of the Jungle was crowned for this year. Now, I have to...

This winter many of us are planning to wear more clothes inside as the weather gets colder, and if we are lucky enough to live in a...

Sunday’s service at the Cenotaph has always meant a lot in our family. I had elderly parents and my father had first hand experience of...