The past couple of months have been a strange time of moving, running up hills, and thinking about another year in Sheffield which looks really quite different to what might have been expected. I am grateful for being able to make crumble from apples and blackberries in the garden, for friends to walk with and… Read More summer twenty-twenty
This week I received news which means I am likely to be moving up north to Sheffield from September. This has come in same week as celebrating the formal end of my grad scheme. It seems strange to be on the move once more, but I feel very settled in it. I may no longer… Read More Reflections on a year in London
Roll back the stone. … Read More Easter – Can we rejoice?
At the centre of Christian faith is the memory of suffering. This is Holy Week, when Christians recall the last days of Jesus’s life, “in whose body was named all the violence of the world, and in whose memory is contained our profoundest grief” (Janet Morley). Jesus is anointed and crowned ‘King of the Jews’,… Read More Holy Week – Suffering God
I stand outside the barred church doors/ hammering with my fists/ while around me/ the world dies. … Read More Lent Reflections
Life has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.… Read More Thoughts on 2018
Optimism reflects a hopefulness and confidence for the future- the idea that good will always prevail over evil. … Read More Optimism – Shobi
The king, Tirian, says this to his dearest friend, Jewel the Unicorn: “If ever I offended against you in any matter great or small, forgive me now.” Jewel’s response: ‘“Dear King,” said the Unicorn, “I could almost wish you had, so that I might forgive it.”… Read More Forgiveness – Naomi
I hope everyone who reads this will use the coming New Year as an opportunity to reflect on what gives them purpose, and to identify what they wish for their 2019 that will bring a greater sense of purposefulness to their life. … Read More Purposefulness – Amy
I’ve asked some friends if they would be kind enough to spend some time reflecting on what they think their most sacred value might be and why. … Read More An Advent Series: sacred values
I love the year end because it provides an opportunity to sit and look back over your shoulder and discover quite how many things have happened in the chunk of time of single year. On Jan 1st of this year, I was performing in a Japanese old people’s home – I can’t quite believe that… Read More Thoughts on 2017
A long while ago now, I read an article about someone whose brother had died,
“There’s a phrase,” she says, “‘the situation is hopeless, but not serious’. That’s how I see life, and all these things that are just dreadful. If you don’t laugh at them, you would curl up in a heap and wail.”… Read More Today is Christmas Eve
