by Julie Turner | Nov 26, 2023 | What's Happening
We live in a country where anxiety is one of the chief problems facing many people, causing real misery to families and spiralling costs in terms of days off work, medical costs and social disruption. Anxiety is that gnawing worry, not necessarily linked to specific...
by Julie Turner | Nov 26, 2023 | What's Happening
The Narnia Experience has been nearly a year in the making, with the original idea coming from an apparently throwaway comment from a friend of mine, Pat Moore, who said, ‘I have an idea about a Narnia event for Christmas…’ Pat has been heavily...
by Julie Turner | Nov 26, 2023 | What's Happening
We had a wonderful ‘Churches Together’ event at GPCC yesterday. ‘The Narnia Experience’ looked at C. S. Lewis’s ‘Chronicles of Narnia’, especially ‘The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.’ All year, we have been...
by Julie Turner | Nov 21, 2023 | What's Happening
A seminal moment is a highly influential moment, something which, in its originality and importance, has a deep influence on us. It comes from the Latin word for ‘seed’, and reminds us that from little acorns come great oak trees. Rome wasn’t built...
by Julie Turner | Nov 19, 2023 | What's Happening
3D pictures can look really effective, fooling us into believing there is a hole in the pavement when there is not, but they remind us that reality is often more complex than we like to believe. Christianity is often presented as the solution to suffering, and there...