Latest Thought for the Week

I was intending to write this piece about an exciting project in Myanmar that the Global Neighbours Committee is about to begin supporting but on Wednesday last week I received an email from Oxfam.

As news breaks of yet another deadly conflict, baffling court ruling, and polarising election result, I feel increasingly powerless and, because my job requires political impartiality, voiceless.

In Anglican services we frequently recite the Nicene Creed, stating our belief in one God, but also affirming that the God in whom we believe is both one and three: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Through all of history God has been trying to give away God.

I find the Sunday after Ascension the most poignant Sunday of the year.

On Friday I said a few words, as I do every year, to send our Pilgrims on their annual walk from St Martin’s to Canterbury Cathedral.

For one of the first times in my life I am a patient.

Once, when I was working as an Educational Psychologist, I attended a workshop on dyslexia.

Spring is firmly in the air but at St Martin’s Charity we have run the final totals on our Christmas Appeal which we are pleased reached its target of £1.9m, and in the year to March 2024 we have raised over £5m.