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Justice in Battle
Tonight was an evening of wigs, robes and ceremonial chains. My vice-presidential cross looked modest in comparison. I sat next to a man who asked whether I was there because my husband was...
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The Tolpuddle Festival
Today was the day that Jeremy Corbyn told me I was beautiful.Actually I think he was referring to my speech when he turned to me and said “beautiful”, but I was touched nonetheless.I was at the annual...
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Go-betweens
This is Doug. He is a member at West End Methodist Church in the Tynedale Circuit. I encountered him on Sunday at the celebration of ministry service organised to mark the moving of two ministers in...
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Pubs, prisons and potential - visiting the Bristol District
I never thought that being Vice President would get me VIP entry to a nightclub in Chippenham. And I certainly never thought I'd be wearing a hi-vis jacket while I was in there. This was only one of...
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A moving tragedy
One of the gifts I brought away from our visit to the Bristol District is a copy of the recently published ‘A Tragedy of Errors’ by Gary Best. It was a gift from the New Room team and I read it on a...
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Well hi y’all! Unity without uniformity in Texas
The global Methodist family meets once every five years in the form of the World Methodist Conference. And we are a gloriously diverse lot. Over 2000 people have been gathered in Houston, Texas, to...
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The struggle continues...
It was off to the House of Lords last night on a sticky London evening, where I was privileged to speak at the launch of a book by Methodist minister, Rev David Haslam. A Luta Continua (The struggle...
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(Channel) Island Hopping Part 1
Jersey: home of Bergerac, finance industry, cows....and gorillas, foodbanks and knitting.Roger and I visited the Channel Islands District as a tag team: I went to Jersey and Guernsey; Roger visited...
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(Channel) Island Hopping: part 2
For those of you waiting with baited breath for Part 2, the wait is over. Here is more about our amazing visit to the Channel Islands.As second in the tag team, I arrived on Saturday evening into...
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Reflection at the Labour Party Conference prayer breakfast
Reflection by Revd Dr Roger Walton, President of the Methodist Conference, at the Christians on the Left prayer breakfast on housing at the Labour Party Conference 2016 5 So he came to a Samaritan city...
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Baked beans and wetsuits
Yesterday afternoon I could have been wearing a wetsuit and white water rafting down the Lee River to celebrate a dear friend’s birthday. But with rain and a temperature of 5 degrees I was only...
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Rachel Lampard's address to the annual Methodist Parliamentary Covenant Service - 17 January 2017“Let me be laid aside for you”If you believe the old adage about not mixing religion and politics, then...
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The Half Shilling CurateThis book was sent to me by the author, Sarah Reay, the granddaughter of the Revd Herbert Cowl aka The Half Shilling Curate. It tells the story of him as a young Wesleyan...
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The Shetlands: Island Methodism and my second encounter with sheep
I arrived in the Shetlands just as the national weather forecast was warning of extreme weather in the north of the UK. My visit there showed that there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong...
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My first visit as President happened on Saturday the 1st of July to Lidgett Park in Leeds to share in the celebration of the district before a new district is formed in September, Yorkshire West. It...
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Religious persecution in Sri Lanka06 July 2017The Revd Loraine N Mellor, President of the Methodist Conference, has written to MP Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,...
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To be a pilgrim
From Tuesday until Friday this week I have been at Rydal Hall, Grasmere with 40 women from the five northern districts (Shetland, Scotland, Newcastle, Darlington and Cumbria) leading a retreat about...
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On Friday I travelled to Southport to take part in the ‘FIRE FEST' weekend. I had been invited by one of the trustees of ‘Summer Fire’ Revd Rob Cotton, which is the new name for the ‘Southport...
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The Methodist Church has expressed its disappointment and concern following a ruling of the High Court, announced earlier this week, allowing the UK to continue to export weapons to Saudi Arabia. The...
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Honouring Pauline WebbOn Saturday 8th July I had the great privilege of attending the Memorial Service for Pauline Webb at Wesley's Chapel, London. Pauline was an outstanding lay woman in the life of...
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