The period between Ascension Day and Pentecost is a time of waiting and call to witness. Shan Rush speaks to us about Dementia Action Week, and the witness that it invites of us.

Jonathan Williamson encourages us to reach out beyond our comfort zones.

Our new associate priest is Helena Roulston, Hallam University's Head of Chaplaimcy. In her début sermon, she invites us to see Jesus in the faces of the people we meet.

Felicity Cowling-Green, Chaplain to the Sheffield Children's Hospital, returns to St Marks this Eastertide to reflect on the disciples' experience of Jesus' resurrection as a homecoming.

Christian Aid week (10-16 May 226) is when Christian communities come together – across churches, communities and households – to stand alongside people living in poverty. Michael Bayley puts it in the context of the Eastertide message.

Our Lent course this year has focused on social justice. On this Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent and the beginning of Passiontide, Ian Wallis examines the issue of social fragmentation.

Today is Mothering Sunday. And it is also the fourth Sunday in our Lenten cycle of sermons, linked to Lent study-groups, on issues of our Christian faith and social justice. This Sunday’s subject is asylum, and Beth Keith finds parallels between the Biblical passages and links to the relationships of care, loyalty, nurture and love that are central to what we celebrate in Mothering Sunday today.