Online learning: how to acquire new skills during lockdown. Millions of users are signing up for free courses taught by professors from Harvard and other top universities. A useful article…
Feasting on the Word
Diocesan Weekly Sermon Acts 2.14a, 22-32 As child and a young teenager, I loved reading books. I regularly cycled a couple of miles into town to get books from the local library and I devoured them. Then came the formal study of English literature for GSCE and my love of reading was crushed. I confess…
Low Sunday Morning Worship at Home
Begins 9am Sunday 19th April Watch it later if you wish…
Priest returns to NHS
With retired health professionals returning to the NHS, the BBC has an interesting story about a priest in Blackburn Diocese, Rev Dr Susan Salt, who was a doctor and is now returning to to help out in the NHS.
Easter Sunday service with the Archbishop of Canterbury
Celebrate Easter Sunday at home this year with a service from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s kitchen. Readings will be led by Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, and Caroline Welby. Theodore Levings, a 10-year-old member of All Saints church in Canterbury, will lead prayers…
Easter Sunday
Happy Easter to you, your family and your friends! Our Lord is risen! Rabbouni!: ‘Whom are you looking for?’ Reading John 20: 11-18 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had…
Easter message 2020 from Rt Rev. Julian Henderson, Bishop of Blackburn
Holy Saturday
Loss: ‘Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for the body of Jesus’ Reading John 19: 38-end After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he…
Good Friday Reflection
Cost: ‘You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too are you?’ Reading John 18: 18 and 25b-27. Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself. They asked him, “You are not…
Maunday Thursday Reflection
Love: ‘Do you know what I have done to you?’ Reading John 13: 12-15 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that…