Rev David

It is more than likely, and surely much to be desired, that the Platinum Jubilee celebrations over this weekend will herald – or to use the headline in one of our papers this past week -‘kick start’ a genuine ‘royal revival’. This is not to suggest that the media in its typically jaundiced reportage is

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There’s something odd about the way Christmas carols depict the infant Jesus, writes Rev David.

For our Shepherds in the St Luke’s Gospel account of that first Christmas Eve it started as just an ordinary night watching over their flock of sheep. They had no inclination of the disturbance to their lives that was about to happen and the ‘news of great joy’ they were about to be part of.

There’s a relatively new Phenomenon on the telly in these days before Christmas. Have you noticed over the last few years, there has begun to be an informal competition for the most clever/touching/dramatic narrative Christmas advert? Two penguins competes with an extensive Christmas table from a budget supermarket and a chain stores marauding fairies and

Like an innocent child wandering by itself into the kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrified the original speaker or writer. Here in this passage we have one with exactly that