Touching Christmas Adverts

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

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Remembrance Sunday 2018

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

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Rev. David on CofE Podcast

Our very own Rev. David Baldwin makes an appearance on the Church of England podcast this week. “Listen to hardworking Christians working on mission and growth in rural England. To read the full rural mission and growth learning report, including helpful examples of good practice, useful ideas and approaches, resulting from the February 2018 Renewal

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Growing in Knowledge

The first in our ten week series on the Way of Life that we hold in common as part of the Community of the Annunciation. How do we seek to grow in knowledge? Our primary source of knowledge about God is the Bible. Reading the bible regularly is a great way to increase our knowledge

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A Way of Life

As part of our prayer community, The Community of the Annunciation, we share a common way of life. This way of life is a framework for our spiritual development, not a set of rules to live by. As Simon Reed suggests in his book Creating Community: Ancient ways for modern churches “A Way of Life

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Rev David on the Radio

Not content with walking nearly 30 miles and getting in all the papers our very own Rev David Baldwin was on the Breakfast In Dorset Show on Radio Solent this morning. In the interview he talked about his work before becoming a man of the cloth and more recent events such as the marathon walk

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