Some Reflections from the Nightingale Hospital London

Some Reflections from the Nightingale Hospital London

Introductions Dr David Whittington, his wife Jill Whittington, and Joyce Hill are all members of Eastgate, and second year students at Eastgate School of Spiritual Life. David normally works at The Royal London Hospital as a GP consultant in A&E and on the PRU...
Garden of Gethsemane

Garden of Gethsemane

During this period of lockdown I have, personally, found plenty of time to think things over. This may not be true for everyone – for example home-schooling parents, essential workers and frontline health workers who are undoubtedly as busy as ever – yet...
God still cares about the details

God still cares about the details

In the current climate, it would be understandable – but not accurate – to feel that God is somehow far too busy with the more important matter of fixing the Coronavirus pandemic, to be concerned with something as inconsequential as the details of our...
Keeping it Real

Keeping it Real

We’re now a few weeks into lockdown and, with at least a few more weeks to come, it’s clear that we are all still working hard to find new ways of existing in this temporary new normal. We might still be trying to piece together social support and cobble together...
Easter Saturday

Easter Saturday

I don’t know how it was for you, but it certainly felt like a strange Easter weekend for me. We are used to celebrating Easter with our family, where lots of fun and laughter accompanies a great deal of excitement about chocolate. As a Church family, we normally enjoy...
Some thoughts from a GP on the frontline

Some thoughts from a GP on the frontline

Today was my first shift working in a COVID Assessment Hub, a centre where GPs and other staff are deployed for assessing patients with respiratory symptoms, and those who are quarantined due to possible coronavirus contact within their households. It’s a very...