Fasting is fashionable today, for fighting disease, enhancing heart health, boosting brain function, aiding weight loss, delaying ageing and helping concentration. Â
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united in worship
And it is Christ who brings us together tonight, Anglican and Catholic with friends, to focus again on what is essential. We are united by the challenges we face here in this place. We are at a spring-time of faith in our dioceses, with citizens hungry for mature and adult faith.
forty days of growth
It’s Ash Wednesday and today’s reflection takes the form of a five minute podcast. You might listen sitting at home with your morning coffee, or perhaps on the drive to work.
there is a way
It's Monday morning and for many a new work and study week begins. These first hours of the week can be difficult. Perhaps the weekend didn't give the rest we needed...
a man, a boy & a donkey
The man and boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, until at last they cut down a pole, tied the donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to their shoulders.
lest we forget
Why are you a part of the Church? I’m part of the church not because of the priests and the people of the church…
Oscars inspiration
There are some some notable exceptions including Matthew McConaughey’s 2015 acceptance speech when awarded the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.
the new and the old
Buildings are important. The best of them are not only at the service of the people but by their beauty they lift our minds and hearts above what is simply routine and mundane.
plainly speaking
I enjoy and appreciate robust and fearless debate among people who are seeking to get to grips with what it is to be human. Inevitably they (albeit unintentionally and often unwittingly) end up on common ground about the purpose of human existence.
surely not ?
As a priest, a leader in the church, I know that what Brian Holdsworth says about church leaders in this brief video clip is true because it’s true about me.
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People looking for these destinations don’t stop at the sign. The check their direction and keep going to where the sign points.
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One of the most exciting Food For Faith projects in recent months is an initiative we have named the Homily Studio.
YOU not me
The deep and enduring solution to every stress is found not in ourselves but in God.
breaking & entering
Any kind of interruption is unsettling at least, and in the case of the tragedy of war, deeply troubling.
good sense
The one who chooses to walk in nature on a Sunday morning as a sabbath retreat has not missed the point