Easter | Gathering up https://wjhoward.co.uk Sun, 17 May 2020 12:12:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 Living the tension https://wjhoward.co.uk/living-the-tension/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-the-tension Fri, 15 May 2020 17:56:14 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=553 Christchurch Parish Website May 2020 A favourite poem of mine is by Seamus Heaney. The poem itself doesn’t have a title. It’s simply no. 8 in a sequence of poems in his collection entitled Seeing Things.  You can read the poem here on the Nobel website. One way of reading the poem is that it’s… Read More »Living the tension

The post Living the tension first appeared on Gathering up.]]> Looking back to our future https://wjhoward.co.uk/looking-back-to-our-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-back-to-our-future Wed, 06 May 2020 15:31:46 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=543 Christchurch Parish News, April 2020 What is the one thing upon which you base everything else in your life?  For example, in recent times, human rights have increasingly become the basis by which many of us try to order our lives, both as individuals and as societies. Explaining on what grounds we hold such rights… Read More »Looking back to our future

The post Looking back to our future first appeared on Gathering up.]]> Out of the ordinary https://wjhoward.co.uk/out-of-the-ordinary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=out-of-the-ordinary Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:20:35 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=68 Christchurch Parish News, August 2018

A reflection on the calendars we follow to structure our lives and why there is nothing ‘ordinary’ about this time of the church year.

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An Easter reflection on Jesus’ healing of the paralysed man.

The post Let down your ropes first appeared on Gathering up.]]> What next? https://wjhoward.co.uk/what-next/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-next Sat, 01 Apr 2017 15:33:16 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=142 Christchurch Parish News, April 2017

In this final reflection on the story of Jonah, I explore God’s identity and character and how we are free to respond.

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