Reflections

In June 1969, in Mexico City, Adriana Martínez finally married Octavio Guillén. They had been engaged for sixty-seven years, and both were eighty-two by the time the big day came! Sixty-seven years is quite a wait and of course, it’s not usually that long – for some its remarkably shorter although that too can be… Read more

Do things ever come to you in dreams? Do you ever discover new insights during the night, while you are asleep? The Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr often spoke about a dream he had that led to his discovery of the structure of the atom. In his dream, he saw horses racing around a track… Read more

When I became Christian in the mid 90s there was a band called DC Talk who had a song Luv is a verb. I remember being struck by the challenge that what was presented to me as “love” on tv and radio was not what the bible meant by love at all. I’ve always found… Read more

My grandfather, Arthur Henry Dawson, ploughed fields in East Yorkshire over a century ago. He had nothing but a pair of horses and a single-furrow plough. It was slow, unforgiving work. It was said that ‘a good man with a good pair of horses’, going flat out from dawn, could turn over perhaps two or… Read more

On Sunday, at our Breakfast Church Service at St Mary’s, we are exploring the Old Testament story of Esther. It is a powerful story from long ago and far away and yet it resonates with our own world in several ways. It is an ancient story that carries themes that are very familiar today. Firstly,… Read more