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Richard Butler
14 hours ago2 min read
Christmas Puzzles
Is Christmas a time for doing puzzles in your household? During Advent, our choir has been singing the “Advent Antiphons”. These words...
Margaret Blake
Dec 162 min read
Look for the Pinpricks of Light
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...
Margaret Tinsley
Dec 92 min read
Advent Preparations?
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...
mail36962
Dec 21 min read
Longing for Light
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...
Gill Keir
Nov 181 min read
We All Need Christmas...
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...
Mark Dearnley
Nov 112 min read
11,11,11.
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...
Richard Butler
Nov 42 min read
Rediscover the Glory
As a frequent cyclist in London for decades, I often pass groups of tourists marvelling at some iconic sight. Unless they are a dangerous...
Margaret Blake
Oct 282 min read
By Him All Things Were Made
This weekend I walked a stretch of the South Downs Way from Pyecombe (near Hassocks on the Thameslink line) to Amberley. The first day...
mail36962
Oct 212 min read
Advent: Surely not yet?
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...
Em Coley
Oct 152 min read
Growth
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...
Gill Keir
Sep 292 min read
Simple Fruits of Gratitude
Our world is increasingly troubled and troubling. So, in our season of harvest, I have turned to our time honoured Christian tradition of...
Richard Butler
Sep 231 min read
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me
Will human beings ever fathom all of the secrets of the universe? Certainly we are trying hard. Research institutions across the world,...
Liz Guest
Sep 162 min read
You Choose
I recently discovered the ‘You Choose’ series of children’s books. Rather than a particular story that has characters and a beginning,...
Mark Dearnley
Sep 92 min read
Parlez-Vous...?
Ruth and I have just spent a wonderful few days in Northern Cyprus hosted by our extended family, some of whom spoke no English....
Margaret Blake
Sep 22 min read
More Precious than Gold
The Paralympics started last week with another spectacular opening ceremony in Paris (this time in beautiful weather). As athletes,...
Margaret Tinsley
Aug 281 min read
Holidays
'A sense of sea and holidays begun, Leisure to live and breathe and smell and look Unfold for me this seaside history book '. So wrote...
Ruth Dearnley
Aug 202 min read
Choices, Choices, Choices
I’ve been reminded this week how many times we have make choices. Choosing things, determines our days. This week, many young people...
Em Coley
Aug 122 min read
Peace and Presence
Today is my birthday! I am 48 years old! But there seems to be a culture amongst people my age and older to down play birthdays and to...
Liz Guest
Aug 52 min read
Hope not Hate
Last Monday, news began to filter through that children had been attacked in a Southport dance class, with the news that some had died...
Gill Keir
Jul 291 min read
In the Beginning...
Beginnings are interesting times. Whether it is a new baby, a change of government, a different job, another sporting event, or even a...
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