Cross Street Chapel is excited to announces a new opportunity. We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented musician to accompany us in our Sunday worship (10:45-11:45), as well as contribute a few incidental pieces each week. Details, including how to apply, are below: Salaried Position with 6 weeks’ paid holiday (pro rata) Annual salary: …
Our re-started newsletter!
We’re pleased to announce that Cross Street Chapel’s newsletter, The Cross Street Times, has started once again. Thanks to the work of editor Adam O’Leary-Amponsah, we bring thoughts from our minister, lettings administrator, music director and secretary! Running every other month, the newsletter will feature contributions from the congregation as it returns to in-person events, …
Cross Street Re-opens for In-person Worship
Dear congregation, We are extremely happy to welcome you back to our chapel and start holding services in person again, but in order to keep everybody safe we are taking some precautions in line with government guidance and best practice from other places of worship. Before I go into detail about these measures, I would …
All Activity Suspended – Statement on Coronavirus (COVID-19) – 17/3/20
Dear all, It is with a heavy heart that the Chapel Committee has taken the decision to close Cross Street Chapel for all activities until further notice. This is in line with the most recent government advice to limit social gatherings in order to delay the spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) infection. We recognise the …
A celebration of all abilities
“Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many … the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable” Paul, 1 Corr. 12:14, 22 Paul was responding to a church filled with conflict; at other points he writes of ‘quarrels’ and divisions: I belong to Paul, I belong to …
The Starting Point of Community
“We share with one another the creative work of living in the world.” Thomas Merton, Care of the Soul Merton creates and then extinguishes a paradox of life: the question of whether it is the contemplative life, the interior life, the life focused on self-development, or the life of action, of deeds, of community development, …
Grey February
“The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.” Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth I often feel in the Doldrums in February. Juster’s description of the graying surroundings, the cool, uncomfortable but not offensive air, the muted environment, it all just hangs. A little bit like the Waiting Place in …
Returning more than gifts
“ … the vibrations set in motion by the words that we utter reach through all space and the tremor is felt through all time.” Maria Mitchell Maria Mitchell was a Unitarian in the nineteenth century, the first female American astronomer, the first woman elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences … …
Playing an Advent(ure)
“… in the human spirit, December is a time of lights, rising over the depths of darkness are the lights of human ideals.” – Carl J. Nelson We are now into the season of Advent, a season of ‘preparation.’ Traditionally, this would have been preparation for the second coming of Jesus – advent was a …
Exploring our Divine World
“Each window tells a story about the creation of the world, the meaning of history, the purpose of life, the nature of humankind, the mystery of death. The windows of the cathedral are where the light shines through.” – Forrest Church, Cathedral of the World Last week I used a story about Tom’s early days …