Big Potatoes, Small Patch #goodfriday
Potatoes should be planted on Good Friday? That’s what they say. But that’s not all they say: they also say...
Parish
up and down the Kingsland Road
Crossroads #palmsunday
Holy water felt a bit unnecessary this Palm Sunday. We took refuge from the rain beneath Sainsbury’s canopy where we...
Andrew Sphikas – palm dealer to the parishes
Andrew Sphikas has just had a delivery of palm reeds from Spain and he’s getting his orders out for Sunday...
Comfort goes to Ghana
Today we said a prayer for Comfort Asiamah before she flies to Ghana next week. She hasn’t seen her two...
Comfort Asiamah And Her Absent Children
From the desk of the Hackney Preacher A photograph of Comfort Asiamah, top left, with members of her family in...
Armistice Day In Abney Park Cemetery
from the desk of the Hackney Preacher Grief needs ritual acts of public commemoration where our painful memories are shared...
Hasan, Firework Salesman
from the desk of the Hackney Preacher On Ascension Day I like to let off three big ones from the...
Saint Jude’s Day, An “Act of God”
While the preacher’s parish was still turning in its sleep, Jude was whipping up a storm: scudding tiles, skyborne...
Hazel Walcott, Champion For Black History Month
I learned a lot of history at school growing up in Jamaica, about Christopher Columbus and about Captain Cook and...
London Community Credit Union 1
Colin Eddy is the General Manager for the London Community Credit Union and Mahbub Choudhury is the Branch Manager...