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  • What's Lent All About?

    Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. This is for many people an important day in the Christian year. Strange things happen. I heard a story about the daughter of a colleague of mine who had just started at a new school in...

  • Radical Humility

    Yesterday, at the Monday Night Meal we host each week in our home for students, we were talking about the word ‘humble’ and trying to work out what we thought it meant.  The word had jumped out at us in...

  • Difficult Paths

    A friend of mine is an experienced distance walker. He likes to take holiday from his high pressure job and simply walk. His walks have varied in length from a few days to a few months. Last autumn he took...

  • World Harmony Week: Seeds of Peace, Shoots of Hope

    The first week of February is designated World Interfaith Harmony Week. We are encouraged to think, pray and act to promote 'Love of the Good and Love of the Neighbour' in the context of world religions. The initiative was started...

  • What Does Heaven Smell Like?

    One of things that I love about Brew@2  (which happens every Tuesday in term time) is how seemingly separate strains of conversation oven converge in surprising ways.  This semester we’ve invited anyone who is interested to add a topic of...

  • Coffee Break

    I recently had one of my sons come for a visit. He is keen to make sure I take some exercise and so takes me on long, rambling walks all over Bath. I think in his mind it is a...

  • A Place Where it's Easier to be Compassionate

    The third Sunday in January has become designated as World Religion Day.  Resorting to Google I find that this practice started in 1950 with the intention of highlighting the positive spiritual principles that underlie all religions and promoting religious harmony. ...

  • New Year and New Hope - Faith Matters

    Eight days after his birth Jesus was named. Luke records: On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. (Luke 2:21) After...

  • Divine Timelines

    This blog is an invitation to us all to wake up and see afresh the wonder of Christmas. The landing point of this blog is the following two verses from Psalm 139: 5 You hem me in behind and before,...

  • God's Weak Spot for the Weak

    I was looking forward to the carol service and nativity play.  I knew it would be a real feel-good event, with proud parents (and grandparents) watching their children dressed up as shepherds, some slightly wobbly angels with tinsel wings and...