Equality is a thorny subject. Ask a women if the world is an equal place and it wont take you long until you get the answer no. Ask any person who doesn’t have white skin and chances are you will more than likely get the answer no. Ask any person who has benefited from access…
I have been learning about icons over on the Cathedral of the Isles under the gentle guidance of Tatiana and I will never look at an icon in the same way again. I was not learning about a particular icon, its symbolism and history, nor indeed about the symbolism and history behind all icons, but rather I have embarked…
There is a rich tradition of making assumptions about Mary, her Assumption being one. Today I am going to make some assumption with her. In the world of art there have been many pictures painted of the Virgin Mary, indeed she continues to be a favorite subject even with contemporary painters. There are even plenty…
Each cross carried the same weight. Each cross counted equally. Some crosses take us into the dark. Avenue of Lost Souls © Dez Green Recriminations will get us nowhere. Blame will not help build a future only make us look back making the furrow we are now ploughing crooked causing more problems in the future.…
I am not one for publishing sermons, I think they are intended for a particular place and time, however several people have asked about my sermon this morning, including someone who wasn’t even there but heard second hand, so here it is. Please remember it was meant to be heard not read. I did set…
Today has been sobering, emotional, sorrowful. This morning as I tried to pray I struggled, I was angry, I was frustrated, I was heart sore. I couldn’t find the words to pray. In the past I have then been content to sit in silence and wait upon the Lord, this morning that was just not…
In Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire there is a floor. A stone floor worn by the feet of countless monks who, in years long past, made their way into the Abbey to say their prayers. Nine times a day they crossed that floor, this floor: Like a map that stone now tells the story of their…
The prophet Malachi speaks of God sending a Refiner’s Fire that will consume God’s people, encouraging out the potential within and turning them into precious gold. Transforming the potential, as Paul was later to write, from glory to glory becoming more and more Christ like. The Holy Spirit came down upon those gathered on that…
Tomorrow’s dawn sees that last day of unending joy. With the the Holy Spirit’s arrival at Pentecost the liturgical season turns away from Easter, Away from the rising of the Son of God to the sending of the Spirit and her empowering so that Jesus’ message, of love and hope and peace is spread to the ends…
While I am not one prone to beach holidays I do like a deserted Scottish beach with its miles of sand, or pebbles and rock pools. It was the former I found myself on one sunny May afternoon whilst on holiday recently. The few other visitors on the beach, mostly dog walkers didn’t stay very long…
I popped into the church yesterday. I have obviously never popped into the church at such a time of day, at such a time of the year, with the sun just so in the sky and shinning, before. Shinning through the stained glass window – of which we only have one. Taking with their beams…
