Dear Friends,   News reports this week announced the reopening of places of worship on 15 June, in line with non-essential shops. Christian leaders welcomed the news but Muslim, Jewish […]

Dear Friends, Anyone who thinks that lockdown is over and that it’s time to celebrate, is living in a parallel universe to all the people whose lives are being ripped […]

The longer we stay in lockdown, the more I long for the open sea.   There is a romantic telling of the coming of Christianity to Britain in ‘the Dark […]

Dear Friends, The controversial American bishop, John Spong, once pointed out that if Jesus ascended physically into the sky, and if he rose as rapidly as the speed of light […]

For Sunday 17 May, 2020   As England begins to tentatively ease lockdown restrictions this week, there is much confusion and anxiety about boundaries. The Church of England is currently […]

The Sufi poet, Rumi, writes of how he has been living on the ‘lip of insanity’ knocking incessantly on a door. Finally, the door opens and he realizes, ‘I’ve been […]

For Sunday, May 3 2020   Dear Friends, On the long drive from London to Fishguard in west Wales there is a hamlet on the old A40 in Carmarthenshire named […]

As we face the extension of lockdown, with mounting loss and fear, and as we begin to wonder how life will be ‘the day after’, the church invites us to […]

Message for Sunday, April 19th 2020 Dear Friends, Have you noticed recently how strong the urges for things we can’t have can be? Longings not only to hold loved ones, […]

Dear Friends,   The roots of our Easter Day Ceremonies at St Peter’s can be found in the ancient practice of a dawn vigil. It is a beautiful and moving […]