Learning
This week’s services & events
- Sunday 26th February
- 8:00 am: Holy CommunionService follows the Book of Common Prayer
- 10:00 am: The Parish EucharistThe main act of worship for the whole community. Children's groups and a crèche run concurrently. Sunday lunch is served at 12.15 pm for those who would like to stay. Preacher: to be confirmed.
- 8:00 pm: Night Service - 'Practising Hopefulness'A simple, open and reflective night service based on the same theme as the Lent course groups that begin this week. Led by Rev'd Ian Wallis.
- Sunday 26th February
Category Archives: Resources
Before ‘Big Bang’
THE SCHOLARLY SEARCH for Jesus of Nazareth can be likened to a cosmologist’s quest for the origins of the universe. Billions of years ago, an high-temperature explosion of super-dense matter occurred, the so-called ‘Big Bang’, giving rise to all that exists. The enormity of this split-second wonder makes investigation into its causes (if, indeed, there are any) extremely difficult. What is more, those clues to date, black holes and the like, suggest a radically different order of things. Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: An Invitation
FROM THE BEGINNING, Christianity was known as ‘The Way’ and for good reason. Jesus, the founder, summoned people to follow him and to share his vocation. Before long, this initial invitation found expression through an increasingly sophisticated set of beliefs … Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Embodying Forgiveness
HOW SHALL WE describe the Christian Way? We are, each of us, apprentices of a master craftsman. A pattern of life entrusted to us through baptism. Like any apprentice, we need a mentor; and it is to Jesus of Nazareth … Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Inhabiting (the) Prayer
Our Father, who is in heaven, let your name be made holy, let your kingdom come, let your will be done, as in heaven so also on earth. Give us this day the bread of Life. And release us from … Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Embracing Wisdom
THEOLOGY as a discipline is not a Christian innovation. We know that there were Jewish theologians in first century Palestine, principally exegetes of Torah (Genesis – Deuteronomy). And although the body of rabbinic interpretative literature we possess comes from the … Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Living Hospitably
ONE OF the functions of a religion is to facilitate access to sacred things: the sacred within ourselves, the sacred within the world around us and the sacred beyond all creating. Such a task is not without risk and for … Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Loving Creatively
ON ONE OCCASION, Jesus was asked which he considered to be the greatest commandment. His answer was unequivocal: ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, … Continue reading
Artistry of Faith: Pursuing Vocation
A SINGLE BIBLICAL reference informs us that Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6.3; cf Matthew 13.55), although the Greek word, as with its Aramaic equivalent, when understood within a first-century Palestinian context, communicated a broader range of meaning than the … Continue reading