Second Sunday after Epiphany: the Baptism of Christ

The Gospel of Mark, the earliest to be written, doesn’t describe the nativity at all.  Instead, it starts with the ministry of John the Baptist and then, nine verses in, Jesus arrives, asking to be baptised.   John is reluctant, recognising Jesus for who he is (“I need to be baptised by you, and do

Times and Seasons – Introduction

I’ve become increasingly challenged over the past year or so by the way in which Quakers put their belief that all of life is sacramental into practice.  This belief is often offered as a justification for the tradition of not keeping “times or seasons” but I suspect that none of the Christian denominations who do