Redhill URC

2020 has been a year like no other-we all know that only too well. I have been reflecting on so many Covid related events;

Limited Hospital visiting so staff members have done their best to act in their placeZooming and FaceTiming to bring folk together across milesStudents struggling in isolationNew Mums with no chance to meet each o […]

Christmas followed the same pattern each year. My parents, my two brothers , myself and Gran, my maternal grandmother who lived with us and my paternal grandparents plus my Auntie Mabelle and Uncle Edmund who joined the family early because they brought vegetables ready prepared for Mother to cook. So it was to be at this particular Chri […]

Part of a sermon for Lent by my good friend and colleague, Michael Hopkins, Clerk to General Assembly.

I think this is the point where I am supposed to talk about Lent being a penitential time, and time for giving things up, but that seems patent nonsense in 2021. In the last eleven months we have given up more than we ever wished for […]

About ten years ago I discovered I had a Jewish heritage. Armed with that knowledge I had lunch with a Rabbi of my acquaintance who suggested I ‘look at’ several synagogues to get a better understanding of what they were about. As it happened I didn’t get further than my first – West London Reformed Synagogue at Marble Arch. The […]

This is a most remarkable puzzle. It was found by a gentleman in an airplane seat pocket on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, keeping him occupied for hours. He enjoyed it so much, he passed it on to some friends…One friend from Illinois worked on this while fishing from his john boat. Another friend studied it while playing his b […]