Renewal One of the great advantages of living in London is that one can pop into the National Gallery to look at just one room, or even just one painting.  Room 63 is one that I keep on going back to.  The paintings in this room are all connected with the city of Venice […]

St Paul is a very special Saint. He is so special that he doesn’t actually get a day for himself in the calendar of Saints.  He has to share one with his great fellow saint St Peter, with whom he not always got on well during his lifetime, and that is putting it mildly, they […]

THE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY: 18-25 JANUARY 2026 To my surprise and delight, over coffee after a morning service at St Stephen’s, I found myself in a group discussion with Christians from different denominations.  We were members of the Romanian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist Churches, with a Quaker School former pupil.  […]

  Love at Christmas Love came down at Christmas,Love all lovely, Love Divine,Love was born at Christmas,Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead,Love Incarnate, Love Divine,Worship we our Jesus,But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token,Love be yours and love be mine,Love to God and all men,Love for plea and […]

For Whom the Bell Tolls No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s […]