This is Advent Sunday. The gospel reading from Matthew inspired the statue in from the United Nations, which features in the attached image. It is from today's readings from Isaiah and Matthew that Janet Morley gives us a programme for Advent. It is not one of passive complacency in the face of the way things are, but of preparedness for 'radical hope'

Anne Padget reflects on memory, what it means for our sense of identity, for finding sense and value in our lives, and how we shall ourselves be remembered.

Out of the Box is a Sheffield organisation that uses stories as a method of encouraging us to think and talk about things in a fresh way. Ian Wallis talks to Katie Caroe about its aims and work by way of introducing one such story - one that this recording keeps 'in the box' for another day.

For this Church Action on Poverty Sunday in the Season of Giving, there was an interview with Siusan Vinall, Reader at St Cuthbert's, Fir Vale, Sheffield. Sheffield is a city of profound economic and social geographical divisions. Jonathan Williamson refers to them in his reflections on how we can pursue God's justice.

In this Season of Giving, this is our Stewardship Sunday. Beth Keith sets the context for our commitments to sustaining the church in the context of how we live in God's blessing

Our Harvest Festival gegins this Season of Giving. Anne Padget reflects on the Christian relationship between gratitude and generosity.

During this service, we welcome Florence in baptism into the congregation. 'Us' and 'them' is the starting-point for Beth Keith's reflections on the parable from Luke's gospel.

We are in the Season of Creationtide. Ian Wallis focuses on the moment when Christ overturns the tables of traders on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. There is a moment, he says, when 'lament's tears give way to lament's rage, passive suffering to active protest'. That is when hope is born, and new possibilities emerge.

The day after Ann Pettifor led a Study Day at St Mark’s, entitled ‘Just’ Economics?, Michael Bayley pursues the question of how to think and act creatively about the issues she raised.

Today is Climate Sunday in the Church Calendar, and Jane Brooke, canon at Sheffield cathedral, comes to Saint Mark's to help us think about how we can be 'part of the vine'.