Faith and the Social Responsibility of Business
Corporate social and environmental responsibility has become a major contemporary focus of business, government and community attention globally. With this increased attention and activity have come…
Progress and Sustainability
1. Balance – sustainability and The implication of the title is that they are opposites; they compete with each other. Can’t have them both – it’s either/or…
Jesus Whispers
His story we had heard So many times, And yet not listened. No such thing As a free lunch, We’d come to believe, Like all the…
Get On Board
This is a sermon that was preached by Rev Jennifer Hughes on Pentecost Sunday, 15th May 2016 Scripture Reading: Acts 2:1-21 Recently, I was part of…
Dinner Table Communion
A community of kindred spirits Gathered in warm exchange. Sharing fellowship And a sense of mutual reflection. ‘How do you feel?’ he asks. In polite euphemisms,…
Kairos Moment
Only now, In the stillness of reflection. Only now, In life’s wilderness, Does Your voice Like softly falling rain, Slowly seep into consciousness. Filling the heart’s…
Christmas Bowl 2017
Christmas Bowl presentation BPUC morning service, 24 December 2017 Did you see the video from last year’s Christmas Bowl Appeal? It told the stories of two…
Treadmilling
Across the business of the working day You call. And we stay our course, Incessantly tapping Keyboards full of crucial trivia That fall to earth as…
A Story of Hope
Dear all My Project on Education and Trauma Counselling in South Sudanese camps has attracted the Anglican World Head of Churches to visit the refugees…
God of the Heart
When I least expect, You find me. When I am unready, You speak in whispers, Silent, insistent. In the heat of the action Your stillness descends.…
A Sense of Sunday Service
Sitting at worship In anticipation Of the bread of life, We await the familiar Strains of a liturgy That is forever new, Drawing us to that…