Bible reading: Acts 2:1-11. Message. Cardiff has been, and still is, a city of many languages: Welsh and English, of course, but also Norman French and Old Norse, neither of which, I suspect are in use today! Welsh was the predominant language from the 1300s until the city’s rapid growth during the 19th century. By

Bible reading: Acts 16:1-12. Message. In his poem “To a Mouse”, the Scottish poet Robert Burns is describes how the field or harvest mouse, all cosy and content in its winter nest, has its life turned upside-down when the farmer ploughs up the field and destroys its home The poem contains the famous line, which

Bible reading: Acts 9:36-42. Message. I’m sure that we’ve all watched or read about this week’s VE Day commemorations – indeed, it’s been impossible to avoid them! Much of the media’s attention has focused on the surviving veterans from the second World War, all of them now around 100 years old (and some of them

Bible reading: Acts 19:1-9. Message. It must have been amazing to meet the risen Christ! The Gospels and the book of Acts give us accounts of several people who had the joy of that experience: the women early on Easter morning, the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, the frightened group huddled in the