
For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. Words from the Collect for Easter Day. For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. These words, for me, are words of hope. At the dawning of this … [Read more...]
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A husband, father, and Licensed Lay Minister (Reader) reflecting on life, faith, and the prayers we pray in the Church of England

For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. Words from the Collect for Easter Day. For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. These words, for me, are words of hope. At the dawning of this … [Read more...]

In the past week or so we’ve been spending a lot of time remembering the past, and remembering specifically some pretty horrific aspects of that past. We do need to remember those things, and to learn from those … [Read more...]

For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. Words from the Collect for Easter Day. For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. These words, for me, are words of hope. At the dawning of this … [Read more...]

Today is the feast of The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, often known by the Church as Candlemas. The story of Christ being presented in the Temple can be found in Luke 2:22-40. In days of yore Christians used to … [Read more...]

It feels like an awfully long time since I've been able to lead Evensong and preach a sermon at Church. It's about two and half months for the latter, and a month longer for the former. But there were a couple of early … [Read more...]

For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. Words from the Collect for Easter Day. For a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open. These words, for me, are words of hope. At the dawning of this … [Read more...]

Today is the feast of The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, often known by the Church as Candlemas. The story of Christ being presented in the Temple can be found in Luke 2:22-40. In days of yore Christians used to … [Read more...]

The Collects for the next two Sundays are swapped around. Normally Remembrance Sunday falls on the Third Sunday before Advent, which is this week. But this year it is next Sunday, The Second Sunday before Advent. Because … [Read more...]

Stories like this one, about Reverend Scott Schmieding, give me a tremendous amount of hope. Scott wasn't cured in the sense of his body being fully restored to the health he enjoyed before his cancer. But he was very … [Read more...]

Do you feel that there's nothing you can do, personally, to make a difference to the environmental problems the world faces? With all that's happening off the coast of Louisiana just now it's probably easier than ever to … [Read more...]