Wilberforce On Monday this week in our calendar of saints we remember and honour one of our own Anglican Saints. William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull. Converted to an Evangelical piety within the Church of England, Wilberforce decided to serve the faith in Parliament instead of being ordained, becoming a Member of Parliament […]
2 Kings 4. 42-end A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, ‘Give it to the people and let them eat.’ But his servant said, ‘How can I set this before a hundred […]
Mary Magdalen 22 July is the feast of Mary Magdalen (this year translated to Monday 23 July!), a saint whose following in the Middle Ages reached extraordinary proportions, but whose biblical example is worth re-thinking today. The true facts about Mary are hard to unravel. Luke tells us that Jesus cast out ‘seven demons’ from […]
Jeremiah 23. 1-6 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord. Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. […]
Our Faith Our faith at its best can help us to understand that we are infinitely valuable in the eyes of God, and not only we but everyone who cares to notice it, is infinitely valuable. In the eyes of the world certain people are valued more than others, often because they got to where […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
