Steph's Adventures

Generally, I try to avoid posting two blog posts in as many days, but today is ascension day, so if I don't post this today I'll h...

During Lent I published some pictures and words to accompany the Stations of the Cross. It seems the 'Stations of Light', or 'S...

One of the realities of the life we have currently chosen is a lot more of our time is geographically tied to this location. A commitmen...

One notable difference about living in the city centre compared to other places we have lived is that, instead of being surrounded by other ...

And this is Love That great white light Who dares Exhale A fragile breath Which reaches out Through time and space An...

A friend of mine is currently trying (and maybe I should add, almost four months in, succeeding) to blog about something she is grateful fo...

Just under a week ago, I fasted as part of the National Fast Day for End Hunger Fast campaign. It was not my only day of fasting this lent a...

Today I am hungry. I am hungry by choice. Around me, thousands have not made that choice. But they are hungry too. And probably not just...

I guess it could be said that this blog post has been more than two years in the making. Certainly, the paintings of the Stations of the ...

I would suggest that one of our deepest human desires, or perhaps even needs, is to belong. We yearn to be part of something bigger than our...

In a couple of weeks we welcome one of the brothers of the Taizé community to join us in an evening of prayer at the church here. In an att...

Like all  good new year's resolutions, my intention to keep my blog more up to date this year lasted until precisely half way through Ja...

  Of the values we committed to when starting out in our current adventure in community life, I think the 'spirit of hospitality'...

I know, Epiphany has been and gone. If I was organised, I'd have had this ready to post on Monday: but I'm not and it wasn't. B...

It's Christmas time when angels sing Their song of offered joy And prophets call in desert lands Their hope-filled words deploy ...

And following on from my previous post... Having struggled to put into words my experience of St Chad's Sanctuary, I wondered if poetr...

As part of our community agreement, we have made an active commitment to volunteering in the city: "Living as a Christian Community...

Although it is now December, and we are well into the Season of Advent, it is not yet Christmas. I say this as a reminder to all those who m...

I would like to wish you all a very Happy St Andrew's day! I can claim no Scottish connections, so this may seem like a slightly odd o...