11 Bishopdale College students graduated on Friday – including someone you might not have expected…
Some wrestle with physical emptiness – food prices soaring, fuel budgets stretched. Others bear emotional or mental emptiness – the sting of loss, the feeling of powerless to change the slippery slope of power politics.
This past Easter Sunday, while we walked across the back beach towards the sea, l kept thinking of those lines from that great hymn by Isaac Watts, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.
Thoughts, reflections, news and stories from across the diocese emailed to you every week.
"God is all about relationship."
"What's the best thing that we could grow for the benefit of the people around?"
"Do you remember when..."
“How much better would it be if house church was more of a living space?”
When God is present, emptiness never has the final say.
Love so amazing, so divine.
Reflections on "an absolute ray of sunshine" on Washington Road.
Ambassadors, representing the voice of their local church body to the wider body.
The big changes in my life have grown out of small, ordinary moments – not grand gestures.
We are called to be ambassadors of reconciliation.
"People in our community are already asking questions about meaning and spirituality."
We lead out of who we are more than what we say.