Amen! by Myrna Michell 31st August 2025
I’ve called this talk Amen, looking back to an amusing comment made to me some years ago. In the months prior to staring ministry training at Unitarian College, Manchester (UCM), […]
Reading & Restlessness by Jerry Carr Brion – 24th August 2025
According to the National Literacy Trust report for 2025, just 33% of young people said that they enjoyed reading, while only 19% said that they read daily. Both figures are […]
How’s your attentions span by Marianna Michell
I’ve heard claims recently that our attention span is shorter than it was; that writers and other creatives should adjust to that expectation. Supposedly, people now want something to read, […]
Thoughts on 80 years since dropping the bomb on Hiroshima by Celia James
This week it is 80 years since the Americans dropped two atomic bombs, the first on the 6th of August, onto the city of Hiroshima and the second three days […]
The Sower by Celia James 13th April 2025
I’m going to talk about a parable, the one about the sower and the grains of wheat. As a child I liked parables; I still do, but their meaning has […]
The Temptations by Celia James 18th May 2025
Although I do not approach the Bible in a devotional way, I am glad that I had become familiar with many of its stories as a child because an image […]
We Cannot Know the Future
4th May 2025 Jerry Carr-Brion We Cannot Know the Future It is a common human desire to want to know what the future will bring. Many people crave certainty and […]
A Child’s Vision of Heaven
by Marianna Michell – 11th May 2025 Twenty years ago, after leaving this church to enter ministry training in Manchester, I was living in the Rossendale valley in Lancashire – […]
A poem for International Women’s Day by Joy Magezis, 8 March 2025
International Women’s Day International Women’s Day Very important holiday For me, millions of women worldwide Perhaps my story will explain My Grandma Esther Immigrant sweatshop worker A women’s needle trades union organiserHelped build General Strike […]
King Arthur. Jack in the Green. They live! — A thought for the day by Marianna Michell
I am under no illusion that a congregation remembers what we talk about, once a service is over. However, what follows is my memory of two services held in our […]