John Cooper

An amazing looking day is coming up

When you collect do let me know if they have any other copies

#PavementsForPeople 1902 edition

Very sorry to miss that - please do email me the text

I'm sure it was energising - it's a special space

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Whatever your new year plan, I hope you find confidence to speak of gods unending love and liberation: it's on offer. It's transformative.

our faith has something to say in and to the world. Confidence that our own faith journey is worth sticking worth! Confidence that says in a world of beautiful diversity we can sit and listen with others without feeling threatened.

Happy Methodist New Year!

New circuits and districts have launched. Ministers, well travelled and newly minted have landed in their new locations.

But what does this year mean for you? With Covid era fading, and new places launching this should be a year or two of bold confidence. Confidence that

This morning I do the Sunday sermon in Iona Abbey. Oh my. The words look so feeble....

Here is hoping for a better tomorrow

To address the crisis of displaced people, we need not to 'stop the boats', but to 'stop the wars'. This is our calling. - Inderjit Bhogal #MethodistConf @methodist.org.uk @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @publicissues.bsky.social @refugeestogether.bsky.social

How late will you take bookings for online participation?

appalled by news today. The continued spread of violence and war is like a virus spreading throughout the world. It's time to vaccinate ourselves by investing in nonviolence, international diplomacy & democracy. Nobody wins from the latest escalation of conflict, everyone looses.

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And so the tail end of another tricky week is passed. The continued militarization of faith and
society is so painful

What a wonderful image - a very happy easter to you

Magnificent! A very happy easter to you and your family.

Oh my

We tried to offer him some money, to at least let up pay for the cabling and switch he installed to make the electronics work right.

He refused. Firmly but kindly. Said he found friends here, and that was payment enough.

Why bother?

He di hi!

You are generous with your words and glad it made an impact.

Grab me one braketime to talk active travel and bikes!

A challenge and privaledge to address Churches Together in England forum today on “a call to peace”.

Very nerve wracking but seemed to go well as some fascinating conversations afterwards

Tomorrows sermon is written. Gorbachev. Jesus. Jerusalem and Couch to 5k....

Today i’ve been listening to stories about Eileen Power and Virginia Woolf. Wow!

Bless the peacemakers….

Bless the peacemakers….
#prayer #peace

Framed artwork in stained glass of a male road cyclist, featured in the front window of a shop

Street sign of Glassworks Gallery

Beautiful stained glass road cyclist at the Glassworks Gallery in Bath

#cycling #art #cyclingart