I come from a tradition where personal prayer tends always to be spontaneous and extempore. As a child, apart from
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Books for Today – January 2018
My book of the month: Praying Psalms: A Personal Journey through the Psalter (Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Or., 2018. 155pp:
Continue readingThe flight into Egypt
The flight of Joseph and Mary together with the baby Jesus is well and truly celebrated in the Coptic Church
Continue readingJesus came to a world of pain and sorrow: a meditation for Holy Innocents Day
In the church calendar December 28 is the Day of the Holy Innocents – the day when children were massacred
Continue readingThe shepherds – a Christmas Day sermon
As turkey and Christmas pudding belong together, so too do the shepherds and the baby Jesus. Christmas without “shepherds abiding
Continue readingHow to create a truly memorable Christmas Eve service
I love Christmas – and all the Christmas services. Yet in the memory all too often one special service merges
Continue readingGod chooses the nobodies of this world
Most mothers are excited when they know a baby is on the way. Mary wouldn’t have been human if she
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“Not all readers are leaders”, said Harry Truman, a former US American President, “but all leaders are readers”. What is
Continue readingThere is no ban on women preaching
Earlier this autumn a headline in The Telegraph proclaimed: ‘Bible passage used to stop women become ordained “added later”, academic
Continue reading60 years ago I was baptised
On Sunday morning 17 November 1957, along with eleven others, at the relatively young age of thirteen, I was baptised
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