February 2022
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How Can We Experience God in 'Ordinary' Time
We are currently in ‘Ordinary Time’ in the church’s year. The excitement of Christmas is finished some time ago and Lent is on the horizon. For now, we wait. Sometimes. In these quiet times, it is not easy to remember...
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Flowers Don't Grow in Cellophane
A friend recently said that the events leading up to the arrest of Jesus help us hang on the idea that out of the ‘compost of life’ will come hope. Like a flowering bulb growing in the dirt, there is...
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The Golden Rule
In 1977 the punk rock band the Sex Pistols produced a song called ‘No Feelings’. It begins: I've seen you in the mirror When the story began And I fell in love with you The song then continues to paint...
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The Environmental Crisis – Where is God? Where are We?
For me, one of the most frustrating things about the pre-occupations of our current news feeds is that they seem to missing out on the really important stuff. Given the seriousness of the environmental crisis, shouldn’t the news focus more...
