Category: St Mike’s

  • Praying for the world

    There are many and varied worship styles in the chapel at St. Mikes and they are all from a particular perspective. However, last Tuesday – praying for the world. Half an hour of silent prayer, incense, candles, a map, book – operation world and quiet. Choose a country and pray for it, lighting a candle…

  • child-Like sense of Wonder

    We must be like a child… Something like this is in the bible somewhere. This mornings reflection was on Romans: nothing can separate us from the love of God What? not even homosexuality? You better believe it! Whether the implication of the words of St. Paul have dawned on the Fundamentalist Evangelical church I know…

  • Chocolat

    There is a lent course called ‘Christ and the Chocolaterie’, having not looked at it I cannot tell if what I thought while watching the film has been said before or not… But anyway, here goes. Chocolat – a beautifully acted and scripted romantic film – but also so overtly religious, how could anything useful…

  • Why Reluctant?

    A few people have been asking ‘why reluctant?’ I guess it must be time for a few answers!! Because: I don’t actually really enjoy church! I find much more ‘of God’ in the beauty of nature, in a face, a smile, music, sculpture, in a pint of beer in a pub with a good friend.…

  • Stepping aside

    John Robinson wrote in Honest to God on prayer, that some people are Kronos and some kairos – I guess I must be kairos because more often than not recently I have been forced to my knees in desperation. Salvation has come though in the shape of the chaplaincy at the university. joining their evening…

  • Square Peg, Round Hole

    Now I think that we must realise that some people like the round hole and no amount of glue and extra peg will make it square…

  • Apathy…

    You would think would you not that those within the churches (even those without a full understanding of a social gospel) would be falling over themselves to try to support the poor, needy etc. Fair-Trade it seems is a bit taboo, It’s a good idea, but I don’t want any… I don’t want anything to…

  • From The Thief of Time

    “Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past.  Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore he said, the only appropriate state…

  • Romanticism

    Cycling slowly along the Taff, river bubbling happily along in no hurry, just like me today. It’s half term, kids out of school, you might think there would be a riot at home, but no, not too bad! Two hours of blissful Christology, and off to the library for a little light reading on myth…

  • An important lesson

    Remember always when volunteers are required in church to keep your head down and do not make eye contact! I repeat, keep head down and do not make eye contact! Making eye contact may result in bad things happening – like air guitar. No, not me, I kept my head down and didn’t make eye…