Reflection & Prayer

What have you got to rejoice about this Christmas? The message of this Advent season is all about the joyful anticipation of the coming of Jesus – God in Jesus being made real to us. God is with us – Immanuel, God’s promise of his unfaltering presence in our lives. The wonder of the story […]

This week’s readings from Malachi and Luke are full of good and bad news. Good news that God had not forgotten them and was promising a Messiah to come to show them good ways. Bad news for some because they would have to change and sometimes that is hard. In the reading from Luke 3:1-6, […]

Reflection by Andrew Solomon “You are not being allowed into India”. When the man at the immigration counter at Delhi airport said this we though he was joking. Our tourist visas were valid and we had already used them to visit India back in February without incident, so why were we being denied entry now, […]

Reflection from Week One of this year’s Advent Resources Have you ever heard the Christmas carol “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”? If you’ve worked in any kind of shop during the Christmas period over the last 10 years this might be triggering some bad memories, but for the rest of us, the signs that […]

“Stability” is one of those words that could have a variety of meanings, depending on the context in which it is used. If we think of what people like to call ‘the realities’ of our life, and of life issues, God often becomes not only a last resort, but very often an irrelevant intrusion. But […]

Tuesday 11th November is Remembrance Day – a time when we reflect both on the high price that so many have paid, and indeed on the whole issue of war and peace. Must peace be forever something that we can only dream about, but remain out of reach? In Mark 12:38-44 we have the story […]