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Psalms: From personal angst to global politics

“The practice of chanting the psalms stretches back into the mists of time, to ancient Jewish practices of chanting the Scriptures. This reminds us of how Jews and Christians across the ages have found in the psalms all the colours and hues and shades of the life of faith,” says The Rev’d Assoc Prof Matthew Anstey, as he introduces his exciting psalm project to readers

Sunday is coming

#SundayIsComing reflection: 12 January 2025

“In God’s generosity and grace, we have been given all that we need to be the Church and yet so often we begin from a place of deficit, a place of ‘if only’…a place of thinking we’ll never have enough to do anything much at all. What if we began from a different place, a place of knowing that we are, and that we have ‘enough’ and that we are, and it is ‘good’?” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves

Sunday is coming

#SundayIsComing reflection: 5 January 2025

“One day in 1879, an archeologist went into a cave, looking for prehistoric artifacts…with…his young daughter. Marcelino was studying the ground, when he heard his little girl cry out. “Look, papa, oxen!” he looked in her direction and saw she was pointing to the ceiling…his little girl didn’t look down. She looked up. Just like the magi, the wise men, in today’s gospel reading. They also looked up,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves.