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An address for Harvest Festival We have just sung We Plough the Fields and Scatter, one of those great traditional Harvest hymns, full of gratitude for abundance, and rightly so. I feel the contrast with the story of Ruth. I really felt it when Naomi arrived back in Bethlehem and says, “I went away full,…
An Address for the East Anglian Women’s Group Service, 12th July 2026 I fell in love with my husband while we watched a murmuration of starlings above Brighton Pier. The birds moved as though the sky itself had become alive: hundreds of separate creatures, each one entirely itself, forming a single changing body that no…
An Address for anyone who feels the pain of our fragmented world I enjoyed reading the first poem I read This making of a whole self takes such a very long time. I am terrible at sewing and at school I famously broke not one but two sewing machines. BUT, I love the metaphor of…
You have seen I am a collector; I have all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in my life. I wonder whether you do too. I don’t mean valuable things, or impressive things, or things that would make sense to anyone else at first glance. I mean the small things we keep on a shelf,…
An address for Whit Sunday That Which We Seek Is Seeking Us On the front of your Order of Service it says, open your hands if you want to be held. It reminds me of a child holding their open trusting hands up knowing that their grown up is there, it reminds me that all…
