Month: March 2017
Crowdsourcing a Sonnet for Holy Ground on Palm Sunday
I need your voice – many of you know of my Crowdsourced Psalms Project to produce a Digital Psalter. Now I need urgently to make this Sonnet by the wonderful Malcolm Guite: Palm Sunday by Malcom Guite Now to the gate of my Jerusalem, The seething holy city of my heart, The saviour comes. But…
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Lent 4: Prayer & Senses
Well, we are nearly four weeks into Lent and I am wondering how it has been for you? [iframe id=”iframe_container” frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen=”” mozallowfullscreen=”” allowfullscreen=”” width=”550″ height=”400″ src=”https://prezi.com/embed/q-rvg3topdim/?bgcolor=ffffff&lock_to_path=0&autoplay=0&autohide_ctrls=0&landing_data=bHVZZmNaNDBIWnNjdEVENDRhZDFNZGNIUE43MHdLNWpsdFJLb2ZHanI5dVduSXJPLzhucmtrQjBQMU1CMDExUVlnPT0&landing_sign=QbUiKV3BJ1vLpF7NJaLm0GI8UZylEdaaybX2WgcvM8k” I hope that you have been able to find some time for reflection amidst the busy-ness of daily living. That is always a challenge for me – but…
What is Prayer?
There are probably as many different thoughts on prayer as people in the world, and this is the thing that I want to assure everybody with – no-one, but no-one thinks they are any good at it. The kind of prayer that we may have been taught at our Grandmother’s knee or in Infant…
Lent Talks 2017 #1 Prayer and Place
Introduction Several years ago, I had a conversation with an elderly member of a congregation. We got on to talking about prayer and how hard it sometimes was to pray. As the conversation continued, I was surprised at some of the questions I was being asked…. Here was a faithful churchgoer of, probably, sixty or…