Gratitude
This Sunday evening at 5.00pm I will be hosting Sr Margaret Malone at our Slow Spirituality Session. Margaret is a Good Shepherd Sister who has taught [...]
Easter – God’s light dawning
Let me invite you to cast your mind back to Holy Week and Easter last year. We were in the midst of lockdown, filming services, and participating in w [...]
Palm Sunday – the power of love
Palm Sunday, when Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey with crowds cheering and waving branches, is a day full of festive joy and laughter. I ca [...]
God’s liberating love for all
One of the great tasks and responsibility laid on each of us is to pass on the faith to each succeeding generation. This is specifically spelled out i [...]
God never stops loving us
One of the things I love about John’s Gospel – so different from Matthew, Mark and Luke – is the opportunity John gives us to listen in on a couple of [...]
The story of God setting us free
One of the new phrases that has crept into our everyday language is ‘Fake News.’ While the phrase may be new, people have been twisting the truth from [...]
Signed with the cross
Ash Wednesday came and went like any other day. There was no service, no marking of our forehead with ash in the sign of the cross, because we were al [...]
Transfiguration on the mountain top
There is something about being on top of a mountain and being able to stop and wonder over the breadth of scenery that falls away to the horizon. I re [...]
We are not alone
The other day I was talking to a member of our congregation at St John’s about what we might do when the restrictions ease and enable us to gather aga [...]