Category: Reflection

Home exercise: Interpreting Holy Scripture Reading the Bible can leave people feeling like they’re reading a story they’ve heard a thousand times, or reading a story from the past that doesn’t make sense. It can seem irrelevant. However, learning about God (and getting to know God better) is not a passive thing. Listening to others talk about God is not[…]

An invitation to people who live in Marsden to meet up with the Vicar in the pub and have a ‘God conversation’.

Connor carved an angel as a gift for his Grandmother

Carol uses art to help her take Bible passages into her heart where they can be treasured and bear fruit.

An artistic reflection on Proverbs 3:18

As we spend time with God, intentionally trying to listen to our Creator, sometimes we find words and images come to us. Sometimes they are a gift to us from God. Marian is part of the Saints Alive course that is being run by Glennis each Thursday – and Marian is feeling encouraged to write her feelings as poetry. I[…]

An artistic reflection on 1 Corinthians 3:11-13 by Carol

I am delighted to announce that Alison Fisher has been accepted and recommended for Licensed Lay Ministry (LLM) training – more traditionally known as Reader Ministry. This is a significant commitment in time and energy, the training for Reader Ministry is as academically rigorous as the training for priesthood. Here Alison reflects on the experience of being ‘nudged’ towards this[…]

During a difficult time in her life, Glennis wrote this poem and shares it now in the hope that it will help others who are facing difficult times

How would you describe Jesus to someone who’d never met him?