Jenny’s letter 21st June
Dear Friends, As I write this, it is International Refugee Day. The statistics are sobering. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the end of 2025 […]
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Jenny’s letter 7th June
Dear Friends, Last week, Susan Jones reminded me that it was National Volunteers’ Week. It was a timely reminder because so much of what happens at St Barnabas simply would […]
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Jenny’s letter May 24th
Dear Friends, There is something miraculous about trees at this time of year. Only weeks ago, many of them looked lifeless — bare branches against grey skies, twisted shapes that […]
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Jenny’s letter May 17th
Dear Friends, “How will we solve this together?” That, I think, is the real question before us at St Barnabas at the moment. Many of us know the famous words […]
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Jenny’s letter 26th April
Dear Friends, This week has held together a number of very different threads. Last week, the Church remembered the Seven Martyrs of the Melanesian Brotherhood in the Solomon Islands, with […]
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Jenny’s letter 12th April
Dear Friends, I am really enjoying these lighter evenings and brighter days. There is something about heading out to walk the dog and realising it is still light that just […]
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Jenny’s letter 5th April
Dear Friends, There is a particular kind of joy that belongs only to Easter. It is neither loud nor forced, but deep, steady, and full of hope. It comes after […]
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Jenny’s Letter 29th March
Dear Friends, There’s a moment every year, just before Holy Week begins, when I look at the diary and think, “Surely I should feel more panicked than this.” There is […]
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Jenny’s letter 1st March
Dear Friends, I write this week on Friday. Today, we gather at St Barnabas for a significant funeral. Significant because it is complicated- in a good way. And because among […]
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Jenny’s letter 22nd February
Dear Friends, On the first Sunday of Lent we are taken into the wilderness with Jesus: forty days, hunger, silence, and then the tempter’s voice — “If you are the […]