by Cotham Parish Church | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
“To us a priest is primarily a representative, a double representative, who represents us to God and God to us… We have no objection to a woman doing the first: the whole difficulty is with the second. But why? … Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may...
by Cotham Parish Church | Jan 29, 2019 | Intercessions, Resources
Lord give us ears that listen and are attentive to your word. Help us to understand and heed your word. Give us hearts that desire to worship you in reverence and Love. Thank you that you well supply our needs. May we share willingly of our bounty with those who have...
by Cotham Parish Church | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog
“How do you identify?” It’s a question no one ever use d to ask. Just how much of one’s ‘identity’ can be summed up succinctly enough to provide an answer to this question? And just what is identity? A friend said to me once, that – ‘some people’s hair is their...
by Cotham Parish Church | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog
These words, from the first chapter of Genesis, are a bit like the ominous tolling of a bell! Yet really, gender should be irrelevant to Christianity, or at least to God, who is ineffably beyond any such concept, being essentially mystery, hidden in darkness, as the...
by Cotham Parish Church | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog
Being cast in the role of Mary for a School Nativity Play has been seen as one of the first great rites of passage for a girl of infant age. Hotly contested and the subject of tears for disappointed ‘wannabes’ this early experience of a traditional telling of the...
