December 2021

The excitement is over, the carols have been sung, mince pies eaten and the baby is born! Two events in the Christmas story always inspire me. The first, on Christmas night, is the story of the shepherds - ordinary people...

Usually the church frets at how hard it is to keep the Season of Advent, with all its solemnity and sense of expectation and emptiness without Christ, the great theme being 'Come, Lord Jesus', whilst the rest of the world seems to spend...

What makes it possible for us to hear good news? How do know what news will turn out to be good? Every Tuesday we have a Question of the Day in the chaplaincy and the other week it was ‘The...

I am always delighted when I come across a new word. Today I stumbled over this one … “spuddle”. The context in which I encountered it left me unsure as to its meaning so I looked it up. Here is...

On 6th December many people round the world will be celebrating the feast of St Nicholas. In popular culture St Nicholas may feature as a jovial, white-bearded man in a red outfit, possibly assisted by reindeer, or even elves, but...