Latest Thought for the Week

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.

If the Emmaus road in Luke 24 isn’t my favourite Bible story, it’s in the top one.

‘I hope I get the Mini-Eggs one this year.’

As the clock ticks down and the end of my time at St Martin’s approaches, so also my list of final sermons and reflections has seemed to tick slowly down, until just this newsletter front cover remains.

Georgie (10) is now entering the fifth week of her Lenten Nutella fast.

There is a lot of mythology surrounding my birth.

I’m not the first Christian to wish we could just ‘skip to Easter.’

Happy Saint Urho’s Day (A Finish-American-Minnesota celebration) today.

Trump: ‘You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.’
Zelenskyy: ‘I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious, Mr. President… I’m the president in a war.’