The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Stef
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Stef
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Stef When I first came to this church I didn’t believe in God but sometime, over nearly two decades here, I started calling myself a Christian. I grew up in a working-class and atheist household in Clerkenwell. We never went to the big church over the road…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Dean
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Dean
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Dean I started cycling on New Year’s Day 1994, at Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, where the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans meet. First I cycled up the west coast of South Africa, before reaching the long, dry roads of Namibia, then briefly in…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Julia
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Julia
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Julia Was it operation three or operation four? Sometimes I lose track, there’s been a few. Strange as it may seem it was an operation that cleared a path back to faith for me. A particularly difficult operation when it looked as if I was going to die and …
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Sissy
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Sissy
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Sissy Everyone knows me as Sis or Sissy but actually my name is Florence. That’s what I sign to at the bank. My brothers thought there were too many Florence’s in the family so, being their sister, they called me Sis and it stuck. There’s another thing ver…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Hilary
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Hilary
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Hilary I was born and raised in Muswell Hill where my family was dysfunctional. My dad imported metals from Africa. My mother bought lots of bottles of gin. Dad was ‘away quite a lot’ - that’s a euphemism - and high up in the Freemasons, dressing up and th…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Doreen
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Doreen
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Doreen Whenever I hear of someone getting married at St Luke’s my mind goes back over fifty years to a freezing cold Boxing Day morning in 1958. It seems like yesterday and I can see myself in my wedding dress walking through those same big old oak doors a…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Ezekiel
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Ezekiel
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Ezekiel Not many people at St Luke’s can say they used to work at Salisbury Cathedral. I did. I was an ordained preacher there…. Just kidding! But I did work there. I’ll tell you about it. I was born in Finsbury Park in 1961 and grew up in Surr Street, whe…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Agnes
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Agnes
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Agnes I think of the polo mint when I think of my lowest moments. For several months a few years back I was so poor that some days all I had to eat was a polo mint. This was after my husband had left me. Our marriage had gone wrong, he had started hitting …
Always there
Always there
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/meditation: Always there Lord, you have always been there for your people. From the beginning of creation, right through to this present day, you have given strength and support to anyone who has asked you for it. But, as we grow older, we recognize how brief life really is …
Imagining the Lectionary: Stay Alert (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Stay Alert (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Stay Alert (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A) Reflection accompanying image “stay alert street living statue mime artist” So stay alert. You have no idea when he might arrive (Matthew 25:13) This living statue mime artist was making a valiant effort on the che…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Everyone - Ivy
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Everyone - Ivy
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Ivy Ethel, my sister, was born in 1927 and I was born in 1920. We lived at number 29 Ashburton Grove, where the Arsenal Stadium is now, that’s where we grew up. Dad was a brass turner, working in Holborn. He was strict but loving. Mum was marvellous. We pl…
Imagining the Lectionary: Extreme Discipleship (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)