Extrovert/introvert, head/heart, optimist/pessimist – there are endless ways we seek to categorise ourselves and others. Many of them are thoroughly binary; you have to be one thing and NOT another, but what about 2 Bible terms? Which are you – Disciple, or Apostle? You may well have thought these were just 2 words for the …
All Welcome?
‘All Welcome’ – I think that phrase has become a cliché. I add it to every bit of publicity I produce for my 6 churches, in the same way (as a well-brought-up child!) I automatically add ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, without thinking. I do want to mean it, of course, that everyone is welcome to …
Launching the St Leonard’s Green Scheme
The St Leonard’s Green Scheme was formally launched at Semley fete on 8th June and the Big Green Picnic the next day, 9th June. At the fete, the wonderful postcards drawn by pupils (and one or two staff) from Semley Primary raised nearly £70. The ones that haven’t gone to new homes will be incorporated into a …
We have the Power!
There seems to have been a deluge of bad news recently when it comes to reports on the environment. So it was with a sigh of relief that I read this uplifting BBC headline: ‘The man who took on the coal industry to save a forest – and won’. Alok Shukla, has just won the …