The Women’s March Last Saturday saw the biggest ever protest worldwide, with millions of women taking to the streets to demand protection of our basic rights and freedoms, which seem to be under threat in various places at present. The immediate catalyst for the event was the beginning of Trump’s presidency, a man who boasts […]
For most of history Christians largely ignored animal suffering. Christian thinkers believed that human beings were greatly superior to animals. They taught that human beings could treat animals as badly as they wanted to because people had few (if any) moral obligations towards animals. Some of this thinking was based on a misinterpretation of God’s […]
Remembering St Anthony On 17 January the Church remembers St Anthony, the great fourth-century hermit and monk. Dissatisfied with his ability to find God in civilization he spent most of his life in the Egyptian desert, battling temptations and demons, practising extreme asceticism in atonement for his sins and giving advice and guidance to people […]
The Magi It might have been just someone else’s story; Some chosen people get a special king, We leave them to their own peculiar glory, We don’t belong, it doesn’t mean a thing. But when these three arrive they bring us with them, Gentiles like us, their wisdom might be ours; A steady step that […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
