Becoming Forgetful in Lent : Discipleship in Light of Dementia

“Discipleship in Light of Dementia” was an appropriate subtitle for Reverend Rob Merchant’s Lent Lecture to the Bank Churches Group at St Mary le Bow tonight. “Becoming Forgetful in Lent” focused not only on the discipleship of those suffering from dementia and their immediate families, but the response of the whole church community as part of the Body of Christ.

Mercy and "Moral Imagination"

I have been singing a lot about mercy - most recently as part of the quartet in Allegri’s Miserere, a setting of Psalm 51, on Ash Wednesday. In the Prayer of Humble Access before receiving the  Eucharist, we say:

“But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy.”

But what is mercy? 

Hypapante (The Meeting of the Lord)

The Thursday lunchtime Choral Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook follows the lectionary for the preceding Sunday, so today we celebrated Candlemas. During his sermon, Reverend Stephen Baxter explained that in the Orthodox church this feast is also known as Hypapante – or The Meeting of the Lord.

Becoming a Digital Disciple - Presentation to Barnet Deanery Synod

I was invited by Reverend James Mustard, the Area Dean of Barnet to address the Barnet Deanery Synod (Diocese of St Albans) and show examples of how we use social media at Christ Church Southgate. It was wonderful to meet everyone and receive such a warm welcome from Fr Chris Ferris the Rector of Chipping Barnet. It was also fortunate that I was speaking alongside Dean Pusey, Youth Officer for the Diocese of St Albans, who was able to cover in detail all the things that relate to safeguarding etc online.

Here is a copy of my powerpoint presentation as a powerpoint file and as a pdf file.
Here you can download a copy of my notes to each slide.