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Season 1 The complete first season of the podcast ‘Hope and the City’ is up on all your favourite podcasting platform. Join Emma Marlow and Rob Fowler as they discuss hope in the face of all life throws at you, a true hope which stands up to real life. They chat throw their own stories, […]

Join Emma and Rob every Wednesday for new episodes of their podcast – Hope and the City Discussing first hand experiences of loss, grief, anxiety, depression and hope. A real hope that stands up to real life. With special guests and Q&A’s. Watch episode 1 here on the website. Find the Podcast on all your […]

This article feels especially difficult to write this month. I’m sitting down to write this a week after the devastating Southport stabbings and in the midst of the waves of violence that have swept across the UK in the days since. In fact it’s the morning after the demonstration took place here in Plymouth city […]

The lead up to the 2024 general election was a major theme of my last article and now we’re the other side of this significant moment for our country. As was expected and forecast by many of the polls the Labour Party won by a landslide. Giving us a change of government for the first […]

Depending on when you are reading this, the UK general election will either be taking place imminently or will have just happened. It is always a very unique time leading up to a general election. Campaigning from all sides goes into overdrive and the news cycle is full of the latest pledges from each party […]

We’re putting on a event, The Cross Rhythms Plymouth Showcase!!! We’ll be bringing you a taste of all things Cross Rhythms on a night of live music by excellent local artists Our Atlantic Roots and Will Allen, live poetry by Steve Wheeler (as featured on the radio) and an inspiring interview with Rob Fowler based […]

In the April edition of the Plymouth Chronicle or here on the website, you may have read Chris Cole’s article about some recent significant health challenges he has been going through. If you would like to listen to the interview Chris recorded about this you can listen again here. Or watch it on the Cross […]

I recently went through a long period of hospitalisation at Derriford. I promised the doctors and nurses that I’d do an article in the Chronicle affirming the tremendous work they do, which is often motivated by a sense of vocation. My motive for the promise of this article was in heartfelt personal appreciation of their […]

In the Autumn of 2023 my 3 year old daughter found an acorn which looked to be sprouting. I said we’d plant it to see what would happen. We duly took it home, found a small pot and some compost and set it on the windowsill in our kitchen. Day after day for many weeks […]