by Julie Turner | Dec 12, 2021 | What's Happening
Garry looked at the plaintive carol ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’ (which you can listen to here) this morning. A very old carol whose English translation was by John Mason Neale in 1851, this is a typical Advent carol with its haunting minor key tune which...
by Julie Turner | Dec 12, 2021 | What's Happening
Advent is a time for enjoying the celebrations. Most of us have things we like to do at this time of year, whether that is exploring a Christmas market, visiting favourite places, making cakes or cookies, decorating a tree or some other tradition that has become part...
by Julie Turner | Dec 12, 2021 | What's Happening
Karl Barth, the famous theologian, once said, “Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.” It is too easy to let the media – not just newspapers these days, as we are also bombarded by online...
by Julie Turner | Dec 12, 2021 | What's Happening
Yesterday we hosted two on-screen performances of 4FrontTheatre’s Christmas show ‘The Satellite Before Christmas.’ The show, which looks at topical issues such as space waste, ever-changing regulations and the disappointment of ruined plans (all of...
by Julie Turner | Dec 11, 2021 | What's Happening
Most people enjoy Christmas and rightly see it as a celebration. The ‘E’ of ‘Advent’ stands for enjoyment. The Westminster Catechism tells us that ‘the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever’, but somehow, Christianity seems to have become divorced...
