By Revd Dr Susan Salt At first glance the account of Nehemiah rebuilding the city walls of Jerusalem appears to have little in common with rural ministry in the twenty-first century. However, biblical historian Lena-Sofia Tiemayer has suggested that by the second half of the sixth century, the city’s population were scattered throughout the countryside […]
By Dawn Savidge, Messy Church trainer and families advisor for the Diocese of Leeds Reconciliation; it’s such a powerful word. It is something that we try to teach our children from a very early age. But how do we model it in a world that is full of so many injustices, conflict and disagreements? […]
By Catherine Butcher, HOPE Together During 2021 Christians all over the UK have been using the Oikos prayer app to track where they have walked and prayed for their communities. The app was developed in the USA and was launched in the UK by Hope for Every Home as part of their Prayer Walk 21 […]
By Revd Sue Pegg MA Methodist Minister in West Yorkshire. ‘May the Lord bless you and keep you; May the Lord be kind and gracious to you; May the Lord look on you with favour and give you peace’ (Numbers: Chapter 6) It began with a phone call from The Arthur Rank Centre office, […]
By Revd Dr Stephen Skuce, Methodist Church in Ireland Northwestern District Superintendent What does reconciliation look like in a rural community that has been attacked for simply being the people we are? The answer is ‘complicated’. The Northwestern district of the Methodist Church in Ireland includes the full border between the two jurisdictions, with […]
Lessons learnt from Foot and Mouth By Richard Betton, Regional Director (North), Farmers Community Network As farmers, the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak is etched in our minds. Our tenanted hill farm, high in the North Pennines was surrounded by outbreaks. We could smell the stench of burning pyres drifting over the hills from Cumbria. In many […]
By Lord Curry of Kirkharle, Crossbench peer and former chair of NFU Mutual What a problem it was deciding where to go on holiday this year. ‘Let’s go to Portugal or Iceland because they are on the green list. Oh dear, they have now been changed to amber so we have to quarantine when we […]
Becoming ‘agents of reconciliation’ By Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Bishop of Leicester Here in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester (a “rural diocese with urban heartlands”), we’ve adopted ‘reconciling communities’ as one of our strategic priorities. It sits alongside our four other priorities: new communities (fresh expressions of church); intercultural communities; intergenerational communities […]
From rift to reconciliation: occasions to come together Dr Anne Richards National Adviser: Mission and Public Affairs, Church of England What’s the difference between God and a wedding planner? Well, I was recently at a meeting with a wedding planner who was talking to two young people about the arrangements for their wedding reception. […]
Vicar organises climb ‘over the hill’ to meet neighbours. Residents who live in villages situated around the base of a large Somerset hill, but are not interlinked, decided the best way to get to know each other was to put on their walking boots, head out of the house and hike up the hill to […]
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