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Magnificent. Not a word most of us would identify with but I’ve heard it twice over the Christmas season in different contexts. Firstly a Church of England bishop thanked his diocesan staff for their work throughout the year in a…
Who are we becoming
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Who are we becoming
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
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Birthing prayer
Broad-shouldered, muscly men walked faster. One crossed to the other side of the unlit path to avoid me. I’m not surprised. I was a bit worried too. I’d started involuntarily talking out loud to God, expressing my frustration and sense…
A shepherd’s tale
Easy-to-organise last-minute creativity for a Christmas service if you’re pressed! Goes well with Luke 2:8-20 (or radical choice – instead of!). “We’re the unsung heroes, you know…No one gives us the blindest bit of notice. You’d think we were dirt,…
Mary’s mum finds out she’s pregnant
Mary and her Mum Christmas 2013 Quick-and-easy (although best if well-rehearsed) sketch on newness and change for your Christmas service picking up Messianic prophecies… Aftertones of weepy mother-daughter bonding sessions. Goes well with the annunciation reading… A: Mary…. B: What?…
Foreseeing: Mary pondered these things in her heart
Foreseeing: a Christmas reflection Luke 2:19 At the Bath and Wells Clergy Gathering Matt Harvey our poet-in-residence talked to us about the Norwegian concept of ‘kenning’. I’d never heard of it before – the art of ‘describing a physical object…