Reflections

Last Sunday evening we had a service in our church called Quiet Christmas – a chance to get away from all the noise and business, and to listen. To listen more deeply to the troubles of the world. To listen…

Our reading is a great story which is very appropriate to Advent and connects to a very famous icon… The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He…

Last week many churches celebrated All Saints Day. It’s good to remember that saints are not perfect people who float about doing good, with shining halos like in stained glass windows. Saints are people struggling to follow the way of…

This week we focussed on a wonderfully rich passage from the Letter to the Ephesians. It is important to me because when I was in my last church as Vicar we reflected on this passage, and out of it came…

Tomorrow is the day that we remember St Luke in the church. We know more about Luke than any of the other gospel writers. He travelled with St. Paul on his journeys, which he writes about in the book of…

Yesterday we had our first Project Grow gardening session in the Edible Garden here at FCH. Gardens are great places to think about our life with God, and our garden here is full of reminders too. The Edible Garden is…

Today the church remembers Ini Kopuria, who was born about 1900 on the island of Guadalcanal, near Australia, part of the Solomon Isles. Ini was apparently an independent young man. He rejected the route planned for him into teaching and…

Today we’re thinking about the Ascension of Jesus. Here is the way Luke tells the story in the book of Acts… On one occasion, after he had risen, while Jesus was eating a meal with the disciples, he emphasised that…

A longer reading this week, but it’s worth it: I wonder what you make of that story? The orthodox church in Ethiopia looks back to this encounter as their foundation. There’s a sense of dynamism in the whole story –…