ST PETER’S RE-OPENS for A Service of the Word from Sunday 2 August Dear Friends, We cannot sing, but we will not be without music. The order of service will be different from […]

TRINITY 4 July 5   Dear Friends, The PCC is working on plans to gradually reopen St Peter’s in the coming weeks. The Church of England is advising churches to […]

Dear Friends, The sun always shines on St Peter’s Day – or so we always remember our patronal festival on the last Sunday in June, celebrated with a bring-and-share lunch […]

TRINITY 2 Sunday 21 June   Dear Friends, St Peter’s has a long history of welcoming black people from the Caribbean and West Africa. In the 1950s, pioneering Fr John […]

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 […]