We’ve just got back from a week away in Northumberland and I think that I have a new favourite county!  Being a Southerner means that it is not a place where I have spent much time, so to have a week there exploring was superb.  Here are six photos, I’ve got about 500 so...

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her. Jn 20:18 Mary; Rabbouni.  Two words exchanged and Mary knew that her wildest dreams had come true.  There he was, the man whom she had seen crucified...

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Lk 24:1-2a 40 Days of Public Solitude was a visual arts project that I was involved with a few years ago during Lent.  The...

When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Jn 19:30 At nine o’clock on Good Friday in 2006 the streets of Manchester city centre were full of people.  They were all taking part in The Manchester Passion, a contemporary...

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Jn 13:15 Jesus washing the disciples feet encapsulates many of his unique characteristics.  His actions show he is...

So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, ‘Do quickly what you are going to do.’ John 13:26b-27  Poor old Judas. Every year during Holy Week we read about his...

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Jn 12:24 (Reading Jn 12:20-36) It is estimated that out of 10,000 acorns only 1 will grow into a mature, acorn producing, oak tree.  The...

 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Jn 12: 3 (Jn 12: 1-11) One of the trends of the last decade has been the rediscovery of the detox.  During a typical...