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Weekly Reflection - "A Question of Perspective"

8 October 2021

Dean Simon

Over the past week or so in the cathedral we have been listening to parts of the First Book of the Maccabees at Morning Prayer. The book tells of a very challenging time for the people of Judea and Jerusalem in the second century before the birth of Christ...

Weekly Reflection - Looking Back, Looking Forward

24 September 2021

Dean Simon

In 1845 Sir John Franklin undertook an expedition with two ships to the Canadian Arctic. He was attempting to cross the final unnavigated section of the Northwest passage in order to understand more fully the challenges involved for future seafarers. The expedition ended in disaster...

Weekly Reflection - How green was my planet?

25 August 2021

Dean Simon

In her final contribution to Catch-Up last week, Canon Leah mentioned Luke Jerram’s magnificent installation, Gaia. This internally lit scale model of the globe, seven metres in diameter and created using detailed NASA imagery, has been suspended in the cathedral nave for over a week now...

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.