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Advent Reflections Week Three: Joy
“Joy is nurtured, not by pretending everything is fine, but by holding our hope together with our grief, the good news with our sorrow, and naming both as reality. We practice joy because we are clear-eyed about our realities.”Sarah Bessey Advent is a strange time which both waits for joy expectantly and seeks the joy […]
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Advent Reflections Week Two: Peace
“Advent recognises the absence of peace, yet the exquisite certainty of its coming.” Kate Bowler I sometimes think that peace is one of those words we’ve got wrong. It is deeper and wider than the images of still waters or pure white doves, it is not meekness – it is shalom – wholeness in mind […]
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Advent Reflections Week One: Hope
“The Advent season is a magnifier” Father Scott Over the past couple of years; I have lost a baby and brought a baby home as the fairy lights shone and the carols have been sung. Advent has magnified both my grief and my joy. The images of a cradle filled with the infant Jesus was […]
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Facing The Past
I shared this message as a part of my church’s Coping Well in a Covid World – and I thought some might find it helpful. Facing Up To The Past – Keeping it Together “Oh yes, the past can hurt, but you can either run from it, or learn from it.” Rafiki In my view, […]
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Faith, Strength and Weakness: Guest Blog by YouBelong
(Please note: I have used the term ‘He’ to describe God because this is a pronoun I am comfortable using but please replace it with whatever pronoun/s you feel more comfortable with when reading it that enables you understand God in all their fullness). When Rachael asked me to write something for the blog, she […]
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We Are Satellites – An Interview with Martin Saunders
Ok, obvious one to start, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you wrote We Are Satellites? I enjoy an obvious question. I’m Martin, and I’ve been involved in youth ministry for the last 20 years. I guess I have dedicated my entire working life to helping young people connect with […]
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The Riches of Darkness Guest Post by Liz Carter
When the clocks go back and the evenings draw in, so often life can seem murkier for many of us. Never more so, perhaps, than this year, with seemingly so little to look forward to, hope removed with anticipation ripped away from us. The world can feel a dark place for us. The world may […]
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A Familiar Fog
I could feel the lump solidifying in my throat, my eyes burned and brimmed with tears, the exhaustion had settled upon me like a leaden cloak. It was all too familiar. I have been acquainted with this fog for over half of my life, and yet it still catches me unawares. It’s different now, though. […]
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How Do You Teach ‘difficult’ Bible Stories to Children? Guest Post by Lucy Rycroft
“She put WHAT through his forehead?!” “The FAT closed over the SWORD??!!” The Bible is full of colourful stories. Some of them seem to have ended up in a sort of ‘children’s canon’, a repertoire we are happy to teach to our kids, stories which publishers are eager to bring to life again and again […]
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30 Books That Have Shaped My 30 Years
As I hurtle towards my thirtieth birthday, I decided to put aside by 1/3 life crisis (it’s not a thing – but I’m feeling it!) and think about the 30 books* which I have loved the most and which have been the most influential in my own writing. I haven’t ranked them because that would […]
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