News and views at Trinity Churches
I confess that I put off writing this piece for a few days, because I couldn’t think what to write about. And then today, it happened…a catastrophe worth sharing! My daughter set off for a...
A few weeks ago, at Holy Trinity Belle Vue, Peter Madley prayed about the warmth of the sun bringing life to bulbs buried deep within the soil, and asked God that the warmth of the...
“Vicar talks about failure.” I’m very aware that we might be here a long time, with long lists of parental mistakes I have made, online bloopers I have committed, or the many messes I have...
What’s your story? Recently, being confined to the house with COVID, I picked up a book I had been given at Christmas. I could claim it was a theology book – aren’t we supposed to...
“The scenes from this disaster are heartbreaking.” So wrote the CEO of Christian Aid a couple of days ago, speaking of the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and NW Syria. It’s not easy to...
There’s something really important about finding ways of saying “count me in” to God and to the life of the Church. We’d love to help people to do that. On Easter Day (9th April) we’re...
When I was a teenager, I took part in a production of King Lear. A moving play with some remarkable lines. One of which is still imprinted in my memory: “See better Lear“. A theme...
One of my favourite TV programmes is The Apprentice, where a group of entrepreneurs compete in weekly tasks to win £250K and to be Lord Alan Sugar’s business partner. Last week the task was about...
As I drove home on Monday evening I heard on the radio that it was “Blue Monday”. Have you heard about this? Somebody (with perhaps too much time on their hands) calculated that a combination...
Last Sunday night, Phil began our ‘Love Actually’ series reflecting on those amazing verses from 1 Corinthians 13 that tell us what love looks like. This week we’ll be thinking about friendship, and I’ve been...
“On the twelfth day of Christmas”, according to the song, there were “twelve drummers drumming” added to the collection of pipers, lords, and various assorted wildfowl. And, according to tradition, the day for decorations to...
It was such a joy to be able to welcome people for our 2022 Carols by Candlelight events. Huge thanks to the full orchestra and choir, to an amazing team of people behind the scenes,...
