Category: Reflection

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?

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.