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Pentecost
This week we reach the third of an impromptu series on the Holy Spirit. On the 10th of May Alex spoke to us at St Mary’s about responding to the prompting of the Holy Spirit with five small words “Can I pray for you?”. She reminded us that the Holy Spirit is not an optional… Read more
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Learning for Life
Someone told me the other day about a church that had experienced a fire. Members of the church community gathered to start sorting things out and the Vicar noticed someone he didn’t recognise. He welcomed the stranger and said, ‘I don’t think I’ve seen you here before.’ ‘Well,’, said the visitor, ‘your church has never… Read more
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In Him We Live And Move
If you go to Devizes, you’ll find Monday Market Street and Thursday Market Street. The names hint at something older: a time when the market sat at the centre of daily life. For centuries, marketplaces have been the heart of a community – often right alongside the church – where the sacred and the everyday… Read more
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Palm Sunday 2026
There is something deeply human about the urge to lift a hero onto our shoulders. We saw it in 1966 when Bobby Moore was carried aloft at Wembley, trophy held high. We saw it again in 1980, when Billy Beaumont was borne from the pitch at Murrayfield after leading England* to their first Grand Slam… Read more
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Miriam
This week there have been press reports suggesting that the long anonymous graffiti artist Banksy may finally have been identified. I have always been drawn to his work, and perhaps just as much to the mystery surrounding it. One of his murals, on the side of the former prison in Reading, is something I have… Read more
