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On this page you’ll find blogs on the subject of HOME from our the latest edition of “Connections” NOVEMBER/DECEMBER Benefice magazine.
November 2020 Connections
The latest issue of Connections is now available, reflecting on light and darkness in these challenging times, it is full of articles, poetry, reflections and art to enjoy and ponder. Click below to download. Connections Nov Dec 2020
Connections from Lockdown
Our new issue of Connections is now available. Full of articles, poetry, reflections and art inspired from lockdown, it's a treasure trove to enjoy and reflect with. Click below to download. Connections Sept Oct 2020 Edition
Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Update
Supporters of Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline from Cotham Parish Church have recently sent £1625 to the charity. Thank you all for your generosity! (This is in addition to the £1500 we sent in January 2020.) Nominally £900 of this is for the seven families we support,...
Gardening with God – Cotham Parish Gardens
‘Land Leaders’ Karen and Catherine share an update on their eco-intentional Labour of love. Building on the great work of other Cotham gardeners over the years our new Eco-Champions (Land) have been busy during lockdown; and the natural world has done its bit too.
Locked in: Reflections on priesthood during this time of restriction, fear and opportunity, Ginny Royston
It seems that everything shifts- no day is the same for one’s inner world and time is needed to process so many things. So, I do not feel in danger of accepting anything as a new normal. Right at the beginning of lockdown the thought of presiding at a virtual...
Thoughts in a time of plague, Julian Maddock
Spiritual Director Julian Maddock writes helpfully and reflectively on exploring our reactions to living through this challenging time. Excerpt: 'This time of plague is a desolation for many: loss of work, loss of income, loss of health, loss of life; traumatic,...
Scattered in the field: Reflections on Eucharist in times of Pandemic, David Stephenson
Often in the history of the church theology has followed practice; and while this sometimes leads to error it can also lead us into truth. Only time and careful discernment can enable us to decide what has been ‘of the spirit’ and what has been mistaken. Development...
Care for our Common Home
Watching Brian Cox’s BBC2 show on the Planets earlier this year, I was struck afresh with the improbable miracle that is Earth - our blue, liveable, diverse, beautiful common home amongst a solar system of deeply inhospitable environments. That life developed in such...
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