In the modest garden of our house we have an apple tree. We have enjoyed it so much. Its intricate bare branches are sharp against the...

You couldn’t write it. Those living under Roman occupation in 1st Century Palestine were besides themselves with excitement and...

Today is the start of Passiontide, the final two weeks of Lent. Now the tone seems to change. The cross has been at the back of our minds...

Yesterday we celebrated Mothering Sunday, a day when traditionally people would return to their home church, by thinking about our homes:...

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. So speaks Duke Orsino,...

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...