At a service held on the 31/1/10 the 100th Anniversary of the Laying of the Foundation Stone was commemorated in the first of the centenary celebrations.

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You may have noticed most of what I say on a Sunday morning has a positive spin to it. I prefer to focus on such themes as beauty and compassion and courage. I do this because so much of what is said, especially in the media, is fixated on the negative. And so instead of bombarding you with more depressing information, I want to inspire you to live full lives, meaningful lives, fulfilling your human potential, experiencing God’s presence in the beauty of the world around you, as well as in the faces of those you meet and engage with day by day.
But today I want to deviate from the norm, at least for a moment. Read more

One night twenty six years ago, at the height of the Cold War, our ten-year old son came stumbling to us in tears. “What’s the matter?” we asked him. His reply shook us: “I’ve been thinking about nuclear weapons, and I don’t want the world to die.” Now we hadn’t been discussing the issue in front of our children. But they and their generation knew deep in their gut that the world then was in grave peril. And a number of you may be able to cast your minds back to the mass protests on the streets of Europe and North America then, with young people crying out in frustration and fear and desperate hope for something to be done. Their methods may or may not have been misguided, but they were a symptom and a symbol of a world in crisis. Read more