Dear Friends, One of the marks of community is that everyone is valued and has a part to play within it. I realised this when staying at a convent in … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 24th September 2023
Dear Friends, September always seems to me to be a month of resetting, picking up the pace again once the children are back at school, shifting some work while I’m … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 17th September 2023
Dear Friends, It often happens that for varying reasons we don’t want to face the truth. And sometimes it is hard to speak the truth to a friend or loved … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 10th September 2023
Dear Friends, At last week’s Meeting For Worship I was interested and touched by the fact that the children’s meeting had been thinking about and discussing, as well as illustrating, … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 3rd September 2023
Dear Friends, … our existence is still enchanted; in hundreds ofplaces it is still untouched, a play of pure forceswhich no one can touch without kneeling and adoring.Words still go … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 27th August 2023
Dear Friends, “Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 20th August 2023
Dear Friends, Years ago, when at a gathering of former employees of the Anglican Diocese of Zululand and Swaziland, I found myself at breakfast sitting next to a monk whose … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 13th August 2023
Dear Friends, A few of us from Lewes Meeting joined others in Herstmonceux last Sunday to hear from Alec Davison and Tony Biggin in words and music about some of … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 6th August 2023
Dear Friends, Having been asked to provide an inspirational reading this week, I immediately thought of Isaac Pennington, who I find perhaps the most accessible and modern of the 17th … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 30th July 2023
Dear Friends, I began thinking about this letter at about the time that a media frenzy was sparked by the Sun making allegations about the behaviour of an initially unnamed … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 23rd July 2023