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The Trouble With Salt
A pinch of salt can change everything. After an unsettling week, Beth reflects on campfire bread, shared food, hugs, practical kindness, and the kind of community we become when people turn towards one another
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The mystery of the chalice
We asked whether an older church might have a chalice with a story to share with one of the country’s newest churches. St Mary Magdalene, Hilton, did — although it turns out nobody quite knows what that story is. Dated 1943 and carrying a military mark, it has set us…
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Breakfast, stories and wondering about greatness
Breakfast on deckchairs, a Bible story told with wooden figures, plenty of space to play, create and pray — and one surprisingly big question…
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Northstowe Church Network welcomes decision on first Faith and Community Land site
A new community hub in Northstowe has received approval for a 999-year lease to support diverse local needs. Plans include spaces for worship, youth activities, and interfaith collaboration, spearheaded by Northstowe Church Network. This initiative aims to foster community connections while providing facilities for young women and various faith groups.
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Chatting and Catching
Do we need clever words or an Extra-Super-Holy pose to make God listen? Phones, walkie-talkies, paper people and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6 helped Little Explorers discover prayer as relationship: God is already listening. We can learn to chat — and, perhaps, to become quiet enough to catch something too.
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What happens when you make space?
What happens when children and young people are not simply invited in, but trusted to shape what happens? At the Diocese of Ely Growing Younger Conference, hosted at The Pathfinder School in Northstowe, delegates explored Growing Faith, children’s spirituality, worship, under-fives ministry, storytelling, youth ministry and more. For Pathfinder, the…
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Greenbelt26#5: What if God is already handing out the pieces?
Pieces of Greenbelt’s Communion jigsaw, tangled cross-stitch threads, a summer wandering through Luke 9 and 10 — and a growing sense that none of us was ever meant to carry the whole picture alone.
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Greenbelt26#4: What happens when we stay curious?
Curiosity runs through science, stories and faith. From Robin Ince and Charlotte Church to Miranda Threlfall-Holmes’s rabbinic “pearl stringing” and a physicist’s love of working hypotheses, Beth explores what happens when we stay interested in the things that do not quite fit.
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Cake, democracy and a Children’s Government?
Wild wind, threatening rain, cake, flowers, bikes — and a ten-minute AGM. Beth reflects on Northstowe Youth Hive’s latest gathering, where young people talked sustainability, challenged the Pump Track signage, cheered the charity accounts, elected a Treasurer and offered some big ideas for Northstowe’s future.
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Greenbelt26#3: How does somewhere become somewhere?
How does a temporary festival become home — and how does a new town become somewhere? From a WONDER flag and ceramic mushrooms to sacred placemaking, pilgrimage and the Chapel by the Lake, Beth reflects on the stories and relationships that make place.
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Greenbelt26#2: Can we disagree without making enemies?
What happens when disagreement gets serious? Drawing on Greenbelt conversations about enemy-love, Christian nationalism, racism, belonging and human stories, Beth wonders how we can hold conviction and courage without losing curiosity about one another.
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Greenbelt26#1: Everyone makes a different Greenbelt
Several Northstowe people spent August Bank Holiday at Greenbelt, but no two weekends were quite the same. Beth reflects on a festival where music, art, justice, faith, comedy and curiosity cross paths — and on what happens when you follow the thread that catches you.
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