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Sheffield May Day Trek: 6 May 2013

Sheffield May Day Trek Poster

The Sheffield May Day Trek is an annual sponsored walk to raise money for Christian Aid and CAFOD. It began 30 yrs ago and with the associated night hike raises around £15,000 each year for the two charities! The money raised … Continue reading

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Divisions at the Lord’s Supper

‘Do this in remembrance of me.’ Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for … Continue reading

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Consultation on St Mark’s engagement with Social Justice – Saturday 2 February 2013

Social Justice

People at St Mark’s have long seen a need to relate their faith to social action. Since the early 1990s, the Social Responsibility Group (SRG) has been the church’s umbrella body for activities of this kind, though SRG has not had an … Continue reading

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The Climate Kairos

On September 15 it was reported that the ice in the Arctic has retreated to the smallest extent ever recorded and scientists are now predicting that the Arctic could be free of ice in summer within 20 years which will … Continue reading

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Taking Up The Cross

I suspect that most, if not all, of us have heard of the Greenbelt Festival – the annual cultural celebration of inclusive, progressive Christianity that takes place at Cheltenham Race Course over August bank holiday weekend.  In fact, some of … Continue reading

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Radical Hospitality

Today is marked in churches around the country as Racial Justice Sunday. As we are all aware, racial justice is something that has been newsworthy for centuries. From the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, to Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963.

I once read a story about a priest in a church who, every single Sunday, preached the exact same sermon. Continue reading

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Climate Change And The Future : Finding A Way To Sustainable Consumption

Wednesday 23 and Wednesday 30 November, 7.30pm, St Mark's Church. Two evenings of discussion with introductory talks by the Rev'd Dr Michael Bayley. holding a burning world in the palm of a hand

It is all too obvious that concern about tackling climate change has dropped off the political agenda and also, for the most part, out of the mind of the public at large. The aim of these two evenings is not, however to have a gloom session. It is to look for signs of hope without being naïve or unrealistic. Continue reading

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Cancelling Debt

This is the fourth in our sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer and by now it will have become apparent that although this prayer consists of various acclamations and petitions they are intimately related to one another to the extent … Continue reading

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A Strange Kind of Justice

I don’t know if you have noticed how the Three R’s are experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment and not only in the field of education where the tried and tested, ‘Reading, Writing and Arithmetic’ continue to be … Continue reading

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