On Saturday 14th April, 11 of us set off from the Forestry car park high above the Vale of Clwyd to conquer Penycloddiau, writes walking enthuiast and Church Warden Dave Bradley.
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This Lent, St Bride's Liverpool hosted a a six-week course to explore the 'queerness' of the Christian tradition. Participants read and discussed Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press, 2016), written by the American Episcopal priest Elizabeth Edman.
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The first of a new occasional series of blog posts by Rebecca Horn, a freelance international development worker. Here she introduces her work - in future posts she will share her experience of working in areas of conflict and disaster around the world.
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Our Rector Miranda Threlfall-Holmes' reflection on John 20:1-18 for Easter Day:
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Our Rector Miranda shared this reflection at our Parish Maundy Thursday Eucharist at St Dunstan's Earle Road, led by our Team Vicar, Mark Waters. Miranda described the service as: 'One of the best services I’ve ever been to, tonight’s Maundy at St Dunstan’s. That Mark Waters can’t half do liturgy well!' Save the date for next year - Thursday 18th April 2019!
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Concluding our series on 'Holy Habits', Dr Chris Bartley, one of our parish's Lay Readers from St Dunstan's Edge Hill, reflected on our inheritance of, and participation in, the Eucharist:
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Our honorary assistant priest Revd Jonathan Clatworthy developed our Lent series on 'Holy Habits' by reflecting on thanksgiving prayer:
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Continuing our Lent series on 'Holy Habits', our Rector, Revd Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, shares her reflection on giving.
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FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT is from 26th February to 11th March 2018 - As part of our Lent series on 'Holy Habits', our Traidcraft reps Trish and Lynn encourage us to make buying fair trade a habit.
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For our Lent series on 'Holy Habits', Kieran Bohan, one of our Local Missional Leaders, shares his experience of the Examen, an invitation to daily thankfulness
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Our Team Vicar, Revd Mark Waters from St Dunstan's Edge Hill, reflects on his experience of contemplation and contemplative prayer as part of our Lent series on 'Holy Habits':
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Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Team Rector of St Luke in the City, Liverpool, and author of The Teenage Prayer Experiment Notebook, was one of eight people who sent a message back in time as part of The Church Times' current series on Church & Youth:
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Is Christianity inseparable from patriarchy, or can we somehow disentangle the threads? asks our Rector, Miranda Threlfall-Holmes on the feast of our patron St Bride:
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Our Rector Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, who was at the Church of England's General Synod when it voted to consider authorising a liturgy to welcome trans people by reaffirming their baptismal identity in their new name and gender, responds to the decision announced this week that the House of Bishops has declined the opportunity to create a new liturgy.
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ON Monday 8th January a group from St Bride's went to Picturehouse @ FACT on Wood Street to see this film. Jackie O' Carroll offers her reflection:
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A baby in a manger. A Christmas card image that we can almost stop looking at, because it has become so familiar, writes our Rector, Miranda-Threlfall-Holmes:
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LAST DECEMBER, as part of our Advent theme on Journeys, we heard the story of Margaret, a former Commonwealth sportswoman from Uganda seeking asylum in Liverpool. This year we celebrated with her and her partner Lydia as they won the right to remain in the UK and be together.
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Last week I read a headline on The Independent news website that said:
‘One in five Brits does not know Jesus Christ born on 25 December’.
I have good news for them - he almost certainly wasn’t! - A reflection by Kieran Bohan, chaplain at YMCA Liverpool.
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On 10th December, Rev Mark Waters our Team Vicar who primarily looks after our sister church St Dunstan's shared a thought proving sermon at St Bride's thinking about the 'Colour of Advent'
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People in St Bride’s are so appreciative and supportive - last week when I brought along our advent wreath, lots of people liked it, which I was really pleased about, writes Trish, one of our Traidcraft fair trade volunteers:
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