It’s mid-May, mid-lockdown, and I’m sitting in my peaceful garden listening to the blackbird singing. I am feeling accomplished, having just submitted my CRES dissertation, and about to start a new book which I have been looking forward to reading for some time. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and …
“We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose …
At the edge of the Rectory lawn a Hawthorn stands in silence. Compared to her lofty neighbours – Oak, Ash, Beech, Sycamore – she cuts a diminutive figure and as they welcome the return of the springtime sun by trying to outdo one another in their green-ness, she quietly dresses …
I was supposed to be on sabbatical till the end of this month. But the restrictions on travel as well as the pastoral and missional demands of the COVID-19 lockdown has meant it rightly needed to be delayed. No, I’m not asking for sympathy. As God reminded me a few …
“The Lord God had planted a garden in the east <…>; and there he put the man he had formed.” (Genesis 2:8) People often say “to change the world, start from yourself” and we believe that small things also matter. We are a young family living in a private house …
The ‘greenhouse effect’ is attributed to Horace-Benedict de Saussure who described the effect in 1770. John Tyndall of the Royal Institution, London did experimental work that he published in 1859 and 1861 which laid the scientific basis of today’s understanding of the contribution of gases in the atmosphere to the …
