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An Easy Yoke?
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
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Women of the Bible – Esther
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
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Living out of a New Identity
We’re in the 3rd Sunday after Trinity, in a season of Ordinary Time, which takes us on a journey to the end of October. The liturgical colour for Ordinary Time is green. I don’t know how you get a sense of what God may be saying to you. For me, I often get a sense… Read more
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Get Active
Most of these weekly contributions tend to reflect on one of the readings for the day, and most commonly this is the Gospel passage set in the Lectionary. The Gospel passages often relate a parable or miracle, but this Sunday is a little different. Reading the passage once again for myself, I was immediately struck… Read more
