From the Chaplain

Greeting to KWS families

It has always been difficult - but these days particularly - to teach character and values. The challenges are many: institutional failure, access to free and varied information on the web, social narratives that tend to the cynical and hopeless. What do we base our values and ethics on when everything seems so relative and shifting, open to renegotiation?

It is something that as a society we need to consider carefully. These considerations will affect the type of future we create.

The Christian story offers a view of humanity where the dignity of everyone is sacred and upheld. It offers a story of forgiveness and grace through Jesus – which is powerful when truly experienced. It offers the potential for accompaniment by a good Spirit to guide, counsel and empower one through life’s challenges. It offers a foundation on which to build an ethical understanding of actions and behaviour.

Two thousand years of scholarship and faith experience in the Christian tradition should not be overlooked – even as we try to find new ways to express our faith in our twenty-first century context.

This Pentecost, I pray that you recognize the grace of the Holy Spirit in your own life.

Blessings, 

Rev Dr Rosalie Clarke