It’s been a very long time since I sang Messiah as a choir boy at Ipswich School! It was no...
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The Paradox of Peace – David Watts
Dimitri, in Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, affirmed that: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”. The widespread...
21/08/202525/08/2025
A Hope that Sustains – Revd Keith Ranger
A surprising number of people, many of them young, are today asking – “Does the Christian Bible have anything helpful...
21/08/202521/08/2025
Looking ahead 150 years
Predicting the future is not easy for mere human beings, so we asked Chat GPT, and it struggled too! Predicting...
08/04/202508/04/2025
Creation by Word – David Watts
“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was...
08/04/202508/04/2025
Simon’s Scrawl – Spring 2025
Words are powerful. As I write, international relations have been rocked, long standing alliances have been shaken by a few...
24/12/202424/12/2024
Hope 150
Our church was started 150 years ago! The first service was held on Saturday 16th January 1875, at 3.15pm in...
24/12/202424/12/2024
De-cluttering the Nativity
There’s an awful lot of clutter around the Christmas story, a lot of it generated over the years by the...
10/08/202410/08/2024
GUIDANCE and the voice of God – Philip D. Jensen and Tony Payne
I can be a very indecisive person. I worry that I am troubling others when asking for advice and this...
10/08/202410/08/2024
Jesus, the Wisdom of God – Nigel Atkinson, Vicar St John’s, Knutsford
When Paul writes in I Corinthians 1:24 that Jesus Christ is ‘the wisdom of God’ it is difficult, at first,...