Sleaford Parish Church 

It's Church....but not as we knew it. For many, being locked out of church for three months has been difficult. Communal worship is for...

About 10 years ago I visited Ghana with a group of teachers as part of a British Council educational exchange. At the end of the trip we...

The Bible verse I have chosen for this edition comes from the principal reading for the Feast of Pentecost. It is one of my favourite...

This weekend is rogationtide. It is part of the church’s agricultural year – along with plough Sunday and harvest. One of the ancient...

CORONACLE – no, we haven’t made a ridiculous spelling mistake! It is a hybrid of Coronavirus and Chronicle and it is our new weekly...

MAY MESSAGE from The Rev’d Philip Johnson May Day is also the feast of St Philip & St James. I have a particular affinity for St Philip,...

This has been the oddest Holy Week I have ever known. Someone described it as the ‘Lentiest, Lent they have ever Lented!’ There is far...

If you hadn’t already noticed, this year is a leap year. The past month – February – had an extra day. It happens every four years so you...

Well, January 31st has passed. Officially we are no longer part of the EU. Negotiations will continue for some time regarding what that...

O Magnum Mysterium – O Great Mystery Our season of carol services and concerts at Sleaford Parish Church got underway last week with a...

BBC Radio Lincs Advent Sunday 2019 Today is Advent Sunday and the countdown to Christmas begins. For many this will mean opening a little...

Lest We Forget. In a few days’ time the town will gather around the memorial on Market Square. The familiar words of the Kohima Epitaph...

Celebrating Wisdom I have just returned from a week at Launde Abbey in the rolling hills of the Leicestershire countryside. It was a...

In 1984 the Latin American theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez wrote a book spirituality from the perspective of the poor in Latin America – the...

The Archbishop of Polynesia Little did I realise when I wrote back in February on ‘environment matters’ that climate change was going to...

Operation OVERLORD – D-Day A service has just taken place to mark the 75th anniversary of D-day. Dakotas are preparing to drop...

At 5.30a.m. we gathered outside the church. The morning was not too chilly, although there had been an early fog as I drove to the...

This morning the RAF Music Service announced that in 2020 there was to be the first Space Parade and that several well-known marches were...

I sit, writing this, in a T-shirt! The outside thermometer reads 16 degrees Celsius. It feels more like a warm April, or even an early...

ST VALENTINE’S DAY by The Rev’d Philip Johnson I wonder how many people, when going out to buy a bunch of red roses on February 14th,...