Author: Peter Sidebotham
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A tribute to Helen by Hennie Johnston
Today, Helen’s Birthday, I look back to the words our friend Hennie spoke at her funeral: I first met Helen, Peter, Esther and Jo when they moved up to Coventry from Bristol, and made their home here at Holy Trinity, when I was the curate. I can remember one of…
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Publishing with Impact: A presentation at the BASPCAN Congress, Edinburgh, 2015
Getting published can be a bit of a challenge. For academics there can be incredible pressures to get published in good journals, and to get your work noticed. But how do you do so, particularly in an increasingly digital world. In this presentation, we outline some of the principles for getting published in Child Abuse…
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Dabbling with Ducks
All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a dabbling, Up tails all! Ducks’ tails, drakes’ tails, Yellow feet a-quiver, Yellow bills all out of sight Busy in the river. – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows I love Eddie Askew’s ability to take something as simple and…
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Childhood pattern – a book review in the Church Times
The teaching of Jesus shapes who we are. But it’s just as true to say that who we are shapes what we make of the teaching of Jesus. Who Peter Sidebotham is — a loving parent and a paediatrician dealing daily with suffering children — has fashioned his understanding of what it means to be…
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Go simply in your spirit
Holy Week. The excitement of Palm Sunday and Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem The culmination of three years of journeying The perplexity of those last days The anguished grief of Good Friday The empty waiting… We journey this week with some of the women who had accompanied Jesus over those three years, and who…
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Go simply in your vocation
As we enter the fifth week in Lent, we journey with Jesus’ mother, Mary – with her struggles to understand and stand with her son; in her discovery of her own vocation, perhaps wondering where and what that is; in her growing recognition and acceptance of her son’s vocation. Let us accept the…
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Listening for our heart’s truth
With great skill and energy we have ignored the state of the human heart. With politics and economics we have denied the heart’s needs. With eloquence, wit and reason we have belittled the heart’s wisdom. With sophistication and style with science and technology, we have drowned out the voice of the human soul. The primitive…
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Go simply with your culture
Tomorrow is the start of the fifth week of Lent. Our prayer this week is that we may hear our heart’s truth. Can we live within our culture yet challenge it? Can we learn from Nicodemus, the Pharisee, who came to Jesus in the dead of night? Click here…
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Go simply in your lifestyle
As we enter the fourth week of Lent, we will spend time looking at the Bethany family: Mary, Martha and Lazarus. We will encounter their vulnerability, their love, their hospitality. We will think about our fragile, vulnerable world, and how we can go simply in our lifestyles, combining active care and contemplative devotion, careful stewardship and…
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Go simply with yourself
Tomorrow begins the third week in Lent. During this week we will journey with Mary Magdalene: Mary, the one afflicted by seven demons; Mary, the one set free; Mary, the one whose name Jesus spoke – tenderly, lovingly. We are invited to simply be ourselves, not needing an exciting lifestyle, busy schedules, comfort foods,…