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Last Friday was Culture Day at my daughter’s secondary school in SE London. Digging into my German family history (how else did I get a name like Aike?),

At the start of a New Year, it’s good practice to pause for a moment and reflect on the year that’s past, giving thanks to God for both the opportunities and challenges.

Beauty for brokenness, hope for despair…

In October I was lucky enough to take a group of the older young people from my Messy Church to 3Generate the Methodist Church’s, children and youth forum.

Over the past year I’ve been on a leadership journey, taking part as the pilot cohort for the Growing Faith Foundation’s ‘Strategic Leaders’ Programme.

O Little Town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie… The images of a sleepy town with dome-silhouetted skyline, conjur...

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God Matt 5:9 (NIV) Love your enemies, do good to them, an...

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Chris...

This Summer our family set out on a mission to walk a section of the Cornish coastline.  It’s part of a grander plan to...

Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers, consider well her ramparts, view her citadels, that you may tell of them...

In Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches called Bethesda near the sheep gate. Inside these porches lay many sick peo...

What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord, who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Psalm 84:5 (...