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St Peters House · Vulnerability – Hannah Skinner – St Peter's House     I’ve been looking around and struggling to find a word to capture how the world looks to me at the moment. All these wary eyes peering over face-masks, stripped back and fraying nerves that flare weekly on a local and global…

Students in halls are on rent strike, fences were hastily erected and then pulled down, a security guard is being investigated for ‘racial profiling’.  Fallowfield Campus appears to be the epicentre of all that is going wrong for students across the country this year.  The truth is that students have had a raw deal –…

Are you Angry? Really, deeply angry? Please tell me that you are. We should all be so very angry. I know that should is never OK, and that people should never be told how to feel… but right now… oh, I do hope that we are all joined up in a massive, collective, clenched-fist-grasped-tight-in-angry-clenched-fist around…

“…not OK”. How simple and little… but how very hard it is to say these words. ‘Normal Life’, dressed up in its busyness and schedules, left little time for random fears, sudden teary-ness or introspection. But time stretches now like elastic… longer and longer, endlessly going in circles some days and then – ping! –…

We’re quite a few weeks into lockdown now and we wonder how you are?  How is your wellbeing and if you’re a person of faith,  how is this time shaping your faith?  There are stories in the Holy Books of people taking time out, of slowing down and reflecting – sometimes it’s forced and at…

‘How lonely sits the city that once was full of people!’ and so starts the book of Lamentations.  It’s a book of displacement, exile and anguish as an ancient people lament the loss of a city. Jerusalem was razed, the temple was destroyed and the people taken into slavery.  It’s a book of loss and one that…

We massively wanted to keep the doors open. We are a place that aims to bring people together, but we can’t whilst it isn’t safe to do that. And so – whilst the Coronavirus risk is high – we have decided to close for the foreseeable future We’re not sure what chaplaincy looks like to…

The Wholeness programme at St Peter’s House encompasses and explores the fullness of life. We believe that everything belongs within the human journey – all experiences take their place within the great tapestry of living, and we don’t hide from the painful truths and hard realities. Living with chronic pain, fatigue or stress can drain…