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…

Every year we throw open our doors to celebrate St Ethelburga’s Feast Day with friends and neighbours.  At this year’s service a warm and poignant address was given by Revd Dave Tomlinson. “Ethelburga left behind no great treatise on Christian doctrine…but a legacy of compassion and social justice.  Actually, this…