In our Advent course this year at St Stephen’s we have been thinking about music and how it helps us understand waiting and longing for God in our Christian lives. I am not the first person to say that Advent is the season in the church year that seems to have the most wonderful music […]
I had a friend who was a teacher and he treasured the ‘howler’ about John the Baptist served up to him in his school teaching days. The exam question had been “What did John the Baptist eat?” The answer received was, “Crocuses and wild honey.” John the Baptist’s diet in the gospel It is an […]
Making ourselves ready Advent is a season for examining our lives and trying as best we can to make ourselves ready for the coming of Christ into the world, both as celebration of his birth at Christmas, and in anticipation of his return to judge the world at the end of time. As part of […]
The Out and About Club had a great success recently. We were runners-up in a competition run by Ecclesiastical Insurance for churches reaching out into their communities. This means we made the last six in a competition that had over 350 entries! Well done to Linda and her team. You can read more about the […]
Here’s a poem John Betjeman wrote for Advent Sunday: The Advent wind begins to stir With sea-like sounds in our Scotch fir, It’s dark at breakfast, dark at tea, And in between we only see Clouds hurrying across the sky And rain-wet roads the wind blows dry… And how, in fact, do we prepare… We […]
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