Redhill URC

I was interested to note Martin had mentioned who we might choose if asked who we would invite to a dinner party. I remember doing this year’s ago shortly after Bill and I were married and dinner parties were the ‘in’ thing. I can rarely handle more than eight for dinner so I think we could choose 6 guests. I can’ […]

It has been encouraging this Spring to see how much our easing of pollution and way of living has affected the physical world around us. We’ve all noticed the cleaner air and abundance of nature. For the first time for many years, in my garden, I’ve noticed many more birds; I’ve seen a hedgehog with family playing on the grass and […]

If you’ve seen the footage of the Beirut explosion last week, you may have thought it was another act of terrorism; but as it quickly became clear it was a self-inflicted wound on the face of a once great city. Whoever thought it a good idea to store highly flammable explosives next to fireworks was asking for […]

As some parts of the UK bathe in glorious sunshine, many have been grateful that lockdown took place during an unusually sunny spring. And for a nation like ours, sunshine is seen as good news. But the ominous truth is that around the world, sunshine is the great enemy. Record temperatures are being reached to a level not seen on earth f […]

There’s a hymn Christians sing, about what the church is: it is where God is praised, where we are wanted and loved, where we try to live and to share out God’s good news. In all its four verses it never talks about the church as a building. And yet for a great number of people, it is just that: a building. Or if its not just a build […]