There are all too many painful indications of the way communication currently seems to have broken down, both between and within different nations. We are increasingly failing to understand one another even when, in principle, we speak the same language. The Washington Post recently offered an article urging a declaration of linguistic independence. Referring to …
This article will appear between 2 traditional agricultural festivals. In May we celebrate Rogation when we ask God’s blessing on the growing crops. At Lammas, in July, we give thanks for the beginning of the harvest, blessing the first loaves the summer has produced. Both these occasions are marked by special barn services on local …
If you were asked to sum up what Christians believe in a single sentence, I wonder what you would choose to say? A strong contender might be; ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son….’. Jn 3:16; but what do we mean when we say God ‘loves’ our world? Here are …
‘Peace be with you’, says Jesus to his friends. ‘Peace be with you’, I say at all our Eucharist services in church. ‘Peace be with you’, we all then say to one another. In the wider context of our world, however, our words are in danger of seeming rather trivial, an almost meaningless exchange. As …
