Are you afraid? You’re not alone. Perhaps we’re afraid for our children returning to school, or for our elderly neighbours and relatives, our friends. We’re afraid of a ‘second spike.’ Perhaps we are afraid of the decisions we have to make or those that are out of our hands. Perhaps being afraid and vigilant came Read More
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A Prayer in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Last month all over media and social media we have been seeing horrific acts of violence fuelled by racism. Some of us have been subject to racism our whole lives and some of us are reading and hearing and seeing and talking about racism for the first time. Some of us are feeling ashamed as Read More
Pentecost: Jesus enters our locked homes
A Guest Post by Rev. Charmaine Howard of Parousia miltonkeyneshouseofprayer.org Charmaine’s reflection was originally posted on the Parousia Blog on 31st May 2020. We asked if we might share it here. If you want to know more about the Milton Keynes House of Prayer, please visit miltonkeyneshouseofprayer.org or find them on Facebook @mkhop3 Reading John Read More
Welcome to PrayMK
OPEN 24-HOURS PrayMK is here to encourage and resource the people of Milton Keynes to pray. But it is also here to encourage YOU as you pray and live and love and go about your days. We are scattered in body but so very close in heart as we pray from the sacred space inside Read More
The one-sided conversation
Having a one-sided conversation can get very frustrating very quickly. Sometimes our prayers can feel like this, quite often, actually. But I wonder if, even at a time like this, we would really want a noisy, chatty, ‘cooperative’ God? John Updike, in his autobiography, writes, ‘The sensation of silence cannot be helped; a loud and Read More
Holy Week 2020
This pandemic feels a bit like an endless Holy Saturday, doesn’t it? We hear hourly about the virus and what it is doing, but we don’t know how or when it will end. Holy Saturday – between Good Friday and Easter – must have felt incredibly long to those who knew Jesus. His friends would Read More