A guest blog by Dave Tomlinson for our ASH WEDNESDAY service   Lent is a very ancient practice in the church created as a fast in preparation for Easter. In the early centuries of the church it lasted no more than a few days. It wasn’t until the fourth century…

Excerpt from Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change edited by Dr Justine Huxley (launch date 7th and 9th March 2019) Working with the younger generation at St Ethelburga’s has been about shifting from talking to doing. For me, this is the most important and refreshing quality of Generation Y and at…

I’ll begin with a wartime Christmas story.   Late in 1942, the German Sixth Army reached the pivotal city of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front. Both sides knew that they must not lose the fight. Winter was setting in, but Hitler decreed that the city had to be taken regardless…

Guest blog by Bruna Kadletz, Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s and Director and co-founder of Circles of Hospitality in Brazil “In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.”   Kobayashi Issa On Sunday, November 25th, thousands of asylum seekers from Central America walked toward the American border….

Guest blog by Elizabeth Arif-Fear who volunteered in Calais with the Sacred Activism Programme  There’s a powerful Swahili proverb that says: “Unity is strength, division is weakness”. What a simple yet prominent thought! The concept of “strength in numbers” is something that most of us would definitely agree is a…