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Weekly Reflection - Swifter, Higher, Stronger?

30 July 2021

Dean Simon

Last week some old friends, now living in Japan, visited us briefly while they were in the UK. Inevitably conversation turned to the Olympics. Our friends were desperately hoping that the Tokyo Games would not be cancelled at the last minute...

Weekly Reflection - Don't doubt it...

2 July 2021

The Very Revd Simon Cowling

Tomorrow is 03 July, the date on which the Church remembers St Thomas the Apostle. Thomas will forever be known as ‘doubting Thomas’ – the disciple who was not present when the risen Jesus first appeared to the disciples in St John’s Gospel, and who refused to believe unless he had physical proof...

Weekly Reflection - Original Goodness

30 April 2021

The Very Revd Simon Cowling

The past ten days have been challenging if you are a member of the governing party, with mounting evidence of what might charitably be described as a relaxed attitude to the ethics of good governance in Downing Street and Whitehall: David Cameron’s lobbying; the Prime Minister’s text exchanges with the Saudi Crown Prince and James Dyson; and ambiguity about the original source of funds for the refurbishment of the Prime Minister’s flat...

Weekly Reflection: To Easter & Beyond

1 April 2021

The Very Revd Simon Cowling

Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
With him mayst rise:
That, as his death calcined thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and much more just.

Weekly Reflection - 26 February 2021

26 February 2021

Nearly twenty-five years after the Macpherson Report confronted our nation with the truth of institutional racism much has changed but much remains to be done across our institutions.