Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
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…
Led to reflect on what had made the Diocesan Gathering so generative of rich kingdom-flavoured outcomes I realised how significant the underlying structures had been. The whole gathering was shaped by a large team drawn from different parts of the…
I’m not long back from the Bath and Wells Diocesan Gathering. Three days of encounter, laughter, applied spiritual wisdom from varied speakers and sources, creativity in word, art, music, dance and (dare I say) theatre… Worship, prayer, story-telling, carousing, and…
A group of ladies were making their way towards us along the corridor, a little unsteadily, led by care assistants. We’d started the worship-service-cum-hymn-singalong in the second floor lounge while they made their way up from the bottom floor: it…
It was a joy to see our church members serving the punters at the Flower Show. It’s not part of our church culture or tradition to be so ‘out there’ in terms of pointing to an invisible Other. Our congregations…