A Centre of Christian worship for over 800 years
The lockdown has had lots of negative impacts on the Parish Churches. Public worship has been closed down, the church buildings are locked and all our baptisms and weddings are postponed. Funerals can only happen in the churchyard or at
As we grow in maturity we often have the experience of having to put things down, or let things go, in order to take up better things, things that are more important. We might have to give up expensive holidays
I’m writing in Lent, and it seems to me that the Coronavirus highlights certain themes that are important in Lent. It reminds us that we are vulnerable to evil, and that evil can be around us and within us, even
This year the month of March covers the first five Sundays of Lent. Lent is a period of fasting and abstinence in preparation for Easter, which falls on 12th April this year. Traditionally we adopt some discipline for Lent to
My daughter now lives near Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds, which is not far from where I grew up. Over Christmas the family met up at her house, and she suggested that we visit her local beer shop. I liked the
On a recent visit to the Navigation I was pleased to bump into the Rt Hon Dame Caroline Spelman, the MP for Meriden since 1997, but stepping down at this election. Caroline is well known locally, but what is less
I have recently returned from a week’s holiday in Russia. My trip began with Sunday morning worship at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow. There was an 11am Family Service for Harvest Thanksgiving, which was exactly the service I was