After the horrific events on Monday night, for which we continue to pray peace into, I have been struck by the number of friends south of the border commenting on more armed police and soldiers in streets. I remember the first time I saw armed police (as the norm) in he UK, it was in…
Today the Scottish Episcopal Church counts, counts the people who come along to its services. Christ the King, the last Sunday in the Christian year before Advent begins once again next Sunday, it is a day for rejoicing, for celebration. A day when we can look and see, that despite how it may seem at…
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.…
When messages of hope need to be sent. When packages of food and shelter are the greatest gift. When fear is rife and peace a stranger. Bombs are sent, to chase peace yet further from the door. Destruction is advocated, to add to the misery which is already a constant companion. And Jesus wept. When…
Today is National Poetry Day, on occasions I dabble in a bit of poetry and I thought I might do so today. For many people poetry is all about pastoral poems, but what is below is far from pastoral, indeed some might find it disturbing. Poetry shouldn’t just be about clouds of golden daffodils, or…
Jesus was born into poverty and was very soon began a refugee. His parents took him to a foreign land, a land where people spoke in a different tongue. They took him there so that the swords of a desperate man wouldn’t take their young child’s life. The image of Aylan Kurdi death is probably…
Yesterday, 23rd August, is the date set by UNESCO as International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. In All Saints we held a service yesterday to mark the day. For me the service quickly developed into not only a remembering of the 10’s of millions who were transported from Africa to…
