to know, grow and show the love of God
‘Writing the Divine’ was a workshop held at St Chad’s, Rochdale on Saturday 19th October 2019. It was led by author, poet and priest, Canon Rachel Mann.
The intention is to make this an ongoing Christian writing group with people from any and all denominations that have an interest in creating new Christian writing.
Here’s our November 2019 magazine. It’s our Remembrance edition.
We have write-ups from our various groups and all the upcoming activities to tell you about.
Coventry Cathedral’s work on peace and reconciliation crops up too. So, please have a read.
Here are the Bible readings for November 2019 which we’ll be using in church.
If you want to read up in advance – or if you can’t be with us and want to follow the same readings – then here you go!
The scriptures this month include dreams, blessings, woes, hair being preserved, scattered sheep… and the forgiveness of Christ from the cross.
What is important to you? What is worth fighting for? What would make you be determined and persistent, not give up on, not be put off until you got it sorted?
Is there something that you are so passionate about that you would stick with it and be prepared to struggle for as long as it takes? What would make you like a terrier who has got a shoe in his teeth and won’t let go?
Into the story comes a tiny, unnamed, Israelite slave girl.
She would have been on the bottom rung of society, if she was on the ladder at all. A slave, female, foreign and young. In modern parlance we’d say she’d been trafficked.
And that should bring us up short. It’s too easy to dismiss slavery as something which happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. Another time, another place.
But this still happens today. It should still make us uncomfortable.
The church is ‘dressed’ again and ready for our Harvest festival today.
We’ll also have St John with St Mark’s School with us on Tuesday morning for their Harvest service.
Donations of food will again go to the Porch Boxes and the Booth Centre. There will be a Harvest lunch in the hall after the Sunday service.