St Martin’s Church serves an area of high deprivation in Wolverhampton. In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, we started a ‘Coats for Kids’ initiative to project provided free coats for children and young people, to ensure that they [...]
Adam Edwards introduces our Christmas Appeal with a call to incarnational mission If you are prepared to fight for the right of adoring Jesus in his Blessed Sacrament, then you have got to come out from before your Tabernacle [...]
Jonathan Wittenberg reflects on life after COP26 and the task ahead ‘It is not up to you to complete the work,’ taught Rabbi Tarfon, a central figure in the development of Judaism in the second century. ‘But neither are [...]
This message was delivered by His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex who attended the inaugural session of the new Synod, which was elected earlier this autumn, on behalf of The Queen, on 16 November. Your Graces, the Convocations [...]
Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal sends a Christmas Letter from the Holy Land FEAR NOT! I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY. TO YOU IS BORN A SAVIOUR. Salaam and peace from Nazareth, the Hometown of him whom [...]
Andy Hawes Purgation This month begins with All Souls Day and includes Remembrance Sunday. It is a time of the year when the liturgy and prayer of the church meets the reality of physical death with the Gospel [...]
Sarah Gillard-Faulkner, deacon and prison chaplain, looks at how we consider the ravens My guess is that, for most people, prisons are neither here nor there places. They have no real presence in the world until something very sadly [...]
ST MARGARET, RATLINGHOPE, SHROPSHIRE Ratlinghope is about as remote as you get in Shropshire, one of England’s most unspoilt counties. The best time to see it is spring; coming from Church Stretton you cross the Long Mynd - very [...]
Arthur Middleton on Reformers, Builders and Caroline Divines: necessary strands of the Christian life The seventeenth century was a theological age: Everybody who thought at all was interested in the subject, and had qualified themselves both by study [...]
William Davage reflects on Remembrance The generation that went to war in 1914 with an heroic, romantic nonchalance did not envisage the slaughter that they would endure in the mud of Flanders and elsewhere. Their awakening was as swift [...]