Forest Bathing “Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord.” – Psalm 96:12–13 Walking in the woods is the perfect summer activity. We are fortunate to be surrounded by local parks and woodlands, which are at their most verdant at this time of year. Places to find refreshing […]
New Every Morning On Tuesday we commemorate John Keble in our calendar of Saints. Many of us will know him as a poet and author of some of our best loved hymns such as ‘New every morning is the love’ and ‘Blessed are the pure in heart’. But perhaps especially at this time we […]
Faith ‘The heart’, said St John Henry Newman, ‘is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination.’ It was a comment he made in a letter to The Times after Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel had said in 1841, at the opening of the Reading Room in Tamworth in the Midlands, that […]
Little Children Today a young child by the name of Ivor Jones is receiving Holy Baptism in our main parish service. For a while now we have had many children taking part in and enriching our worship. Children in our choir, children in our Sunday School and children who prefer to sit at our […]
Christian Communities For me, Pentecost Sunday this year had an unexpected resonance. As the service unfolded, readings in many languages including Ugandan, Welsh and others, reminded us that Christianity has always crossed borders and connected continents. Tradition holds that St Thomas the Apostle arrived in India in AD 52, establishing one of the world’s […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
