A Poem for Ash Wednesday Receive this cross of ash upon your brow, Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross; The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The very stones themselves would shout and sing, […]
As Anglicans, we spend about half the liturgical year in Seasonal Time, when we have festivals and themes and times of penance or celebration (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, etc), and half in ‘Ordinary Time’, when not much happens by way of special focus or celebration. The Church of England has been in Ordinary Time since […]
Too young “I am too young to bother with facebook”… that is my feeble excuse when people ask me whether I am a participant. The problem is that I keep on forgetting how the site works, and whenever I get enticed back on I notice that those amongst my friends who are most busy on […]
The Bible on Strangers and Aliens President Trump’s travel ban has once again brought the issue of refugees into the public consciousness. There are many political and social issues on which Christians can, in good faith, take opposing views. But there are few issues on which the Bible is clearer than that of welcoming refugees […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
