Just a reminder that the Book Group meets next Monday 12th January at 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Steve will, I hope, send out the link nearer the date. We will continue and hopefully complete our discussion on ‘The Godless Gospel’. The chapters remaining are: Chapter 8 which essentially deals with the question ‘Is Jesus against family…
Union Chapel Fallowfield (Baptist)
Baptists in South Manchester
Author: Steve Roberts
Light and renewed vision
A lovely rendition of “Ring out wild bells”, a poem by Tennyson put to music by Alana Levandosky which we used as our intercessions: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring…
Walk
There was interest last Sunday in trying another walk. Gwyneth has suggested an easy flat walk around Altrincham. It starts at Seamon’s Road car park in Broadheath, which is opposite the junction with Atlantic Street. We are proposing to meet there at 10 am with something to eat if you want. The walk should be…
For the turning of the year: A prayer in a photograph
Our pre-Christmas walk – an easy stroll along the high ridge from Pym’s Chair to the top of Shining Tor in the Peak District. On the very top of Shining Tor, just yards from the trig point, in a sodden bog we find this small tree. One of several “Christmas trees”, presumably wind-blown seeds from…
Rage and Hope for a New Year
Ouur first eGathering of the year took the theme of Rage and Hope [see review]. Hope not as wild optimism, or some future life beyond this world, but as a wilfull re-imagining of this world as it could be. Picking up Andy’s theme from the week before we shared Steve Earle’s prophetic song “Jerusalem”: (There…
Services Online again in January
Due to the very high rates of Covid, we have decided that we will not be meeting in person in January (unless things improve rapidly!) but will still gather by Zoom. We will be reviewing the situation at the Church Meeting on 30th Jan.
Magnificat: Reflections on Sumud
A response to the story of a strong, defiant Mary Luke 1:39-55 Reflections on Sumud I went to a talk this week; an annual lecture remembering Tom Hurndall, an MMU photography student shot and killed by an Israeli soldier in 2003, when trying to rescue a child. The lecturer was Lara Sheehi, a Lebanese psychoanalyst.…
Christmas Gatherings
We will be meeting virtually on Christmas Day for a short service of music and readings. 10:20 for 10:30. A Zoom link will be circulated to all those on our list. Feel free to drop in and out if your family/turkey committments so require. There was a desire to meet in person on Christmas Eve,…
User Groups Restarting
Exercise groups, art classes, dancing, support groups are restarting. Many groups have already restarted. Opportunities and Activities (O&A) have closed as an organisation, and individual tutors are restarting their classes. See the Lettings Page for what is booked in. Some classes are on holiday. Covid precautions remain largely in place. Contact your tutor, or email…
Poetry not Prose
Poetry not prose. [Job 38:1-7, (34-41); Psalm 91:9 -16; Isaiah 53:4-12; Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45 ] Over the past few weeks those of us who lead services and use the lectionary have been offered a choice of Old Testament readings – two parallel streams, one of which claims to be “thematically related” to the NT…