Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

Even though it’s almost 20 years since his death, and much, much longer since his heyday as an entertainer, I’m sure most people will have heard of Bob Hope. And if you have, you’ll no doubt also know that Bob Hope’s signature tune was a song called Thanks for the Memories. He first sang thatContinue reading “Sermon: Corpus Christi, Thursday 3rd June 2021”

Despite what I said last week about the difficulties of communicating with people who speak different languages, there can’t be any doubt that language is of the greatest gifts we have as human beings. In fact, in the minds of many people, language, the ability to communicate through the spoken word, is perhaps more thanContinue reading “Trinity Sunday, 30th May 2021”

Those of you who’ve been in higher education will know that for each course, or unit of a course that you do, you’re given a bibliography, a list of books that you’re either expected to read or that it’s at least suggested you read to help you with studying that particular course or unit. ThatContinue reading “Sermon for Pentecost: Sunday 23rd May, 2021”