Parish of Whitehaven Trinity Service 2020
Today is Trinity Sunday, and here is the virtual service which St James's Whitehaven posted online for today.
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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Science is a very valuable way of finding out about the physical world we live in, and any religious believer or church who values truth should respect and listen to what science can tell us about the physical world.
Science can tell us nothing, however about compassion, about what is right and wrong, and very little about spirituality, or about how to worship should you choose to do so.
I say "very little" rather than "nothing" because the fact that the Parish of Whitehaven posted this service online as a virtual service rather than meeting physically at the church is because they are following the government direction not to meet in person to hold church services, which is in turn due to the advice given to the government by SAGE on how to defeat the COVID-19 coronavirus.
In that sense the answer to the question is "Yes."