Category: Reflection

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?

A poem about doubt from Elizabeth

The Marsden Jazz Festival comes to St Bartholomew’s

Linn Clegg shouted at God: and the Almighty responded. This is a beautiful story of a woman who met God in the countryside.

Iain Mejaat describes discovering an incredible relationship within God and with God

Doreen writes, “the minute I walked into the church I felt at home, it reminded me so much of the church of my youth, and just how much it had meant to me”

This is a recording I made in response to a feeling that I needed to speak to the people of Marsden about my calling to be the Church of England Vicar here. So, sat outside the Riverhead pub, with the traffic noise and the sound of the weir behind me, I made this unscripted recording: a transcription of which follows[…]

Jim tells her faith-story: a lifetime of belief and how knowing God has helped her