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Mark 1.14-20 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled,...

I don’t know about you, but I find myself feeling pretty disheartened by the news just at the moment. The situation in the Middle East...

https://youtu.be/Ww-JZzSGKLU Wildgoose Rural Training ( https://www.wildgooseruraltraining.org/ ) is a care farm for adults and young...

My youngest daughter has recently started her first teaching job. She is at work at around 7.45 in the morning and has not (yet) got home...

At Hallow church, we want to build a welcoming and inclusive community, with our church building available to everyone who might want to...

Hartlepool, Southport, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Bristol, even the leafy streets of Aldershot are all, as I write, being...

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Luke 1.46-55 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has looked with favour on the...

I am shortly heading off to Italy on holiday. I love Italy- the landscape, culture, people, language (and of course the food and wine)....

John 17.6-19 Jesus prays to the Father for his disciples 6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They...

Life at the Vicarage is rarely dull. The other day, I was minding my own business when the phone went. It was a lady whose husband was...

There’s been a lot in the national media recently about extremism. Michael Gove has re-defined extremism. Extremists, we are told, are to...

Being a vicar is quite an odd job (perhaps being quite an odd person is a help in that respect). I seem to find myself in all sorts of...

Today we are looking at two passages- one from the book of 2 Kings, and the other from Mark’s Gospel- both  involving Elijah and heavenly...

Today’s gospel is the account of Mary and Joseph taking Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem- aged just six weeks- and the events that unfold...

Looking at the Miracle at the wedding at Cana- from Mary’s end- the second chapter of John’s Gospel: 2 On the third day a wedding took...

Looking at Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 2, verse 1-12 2 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the...