How often do we miss the fact we’ve got what we’d always hoped for, because we see someone else getting more?

Doing less does not mean caring less, but it does mean slowing down and giving ourselves an opportunity to reflect on the beauty and wonder of creation and on our place within it.

Read the sermon that was shared at our 50th anniversary Eucharist.

God is continually working his purpose out, but we need to be ready to receive this purpose in whatever form it takes

A poem written in honour of the 50th anniversary of the formation of Cotham Parish Church.

The biblical Jubilee is a ‘a time to re-establish a proper relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.’

The world is full of hidden treasures. Let us give thanks.

Consider the ways in which God’s life might be prayerfully discerned amongst the living realities of the streets of our city.

Our care for the earth needs to be seen as part of the working out of our faith.

September is when we gather, ready to move on.

‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.’

An invitation to the creation of a world that offers a ‘Common Home’ to all the ‘unhomed’ peoples and creatures.

The temptation is often to grasp after a sense of control and narrow safety rather than immersing ourselves in the love and mercy of God

Don’t make the people go away: you give them something to eat.

There was a lad with five loaves of bread and two fish. And he too is remembered wherever the gospel is preached.

The task of the spiritual life is perhaps simply to believe in the existence of that “little bit of God” in ourselves so that we can respond

Let’s continue, together, to work it out; and to do so faithfully and generously.

Living sustainably requires a fresh imagination about and engagement with our lives in cities, and an anticipation that we will encounter God in these places too

Let’s remain in our ‘sheds’ and at our ‘workbenches’ - because it’s ‘there’ that the dream of God’s coming kingdom continues to take shape.