More Reflections

How is your Lent going? In our family we are using the season to think carefully about a couple of the issues that every modern family battles with – namely our sugar intake and our screen time! In a culture where ultra-processed food is cheaper and easier to access than ever before, and where screens… Read more

In our church tradition, Lent is a season which gives us a chance for personal reflection on our faith-journey. The church’s journey ‘explains the characteristic notes of Lent – self-examination, penitence, self-denial, study and preparation for Easter, to which alsmgiving has traditionally been added.’1 The Lenten journey is an annual commitment, and I have some… Read more

The end is nigh! I don’t mean the end of the world, you will be relieved to hear. However, a couple of seasons in the lives of St Swithun’s and St Mary’s churches draw to a close this Sunday. Firstly, our time of gathering in the one place for worship each Sunday is now over.… Read more

On Sunday we arrive at part seven of our eight-part series of sermons on Paul’s letter to the Romans. Paul’s epistle, written in the mid-50s of the first century, has been described as ‘arguably the single most important work of Christian theology ever written.’ James Dunn. In Chapter 12 we come to the final section… Read more