Pobl Dewi: September 2025

“We’ve got work to do” – Archbishop Cherry takes the helm

Wales has a new archbishop. The Bishop of Monmouth, Cherry Vann, was elected in July and will be formally enthroned later in the year. She is the 15th person – and the first woman - to hold the office.

"It’s going to take a while but I think we’ve got a chance now to do some really good work across the Province to ensure that all six dioceses are in a good place.”

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Oh, did we need a faculty?

Nicola Davies, formerly our Diocesan Surveyor and an accredited conservationist, explains why you do – and offers a helping hand.

Sea Sunday brought together the LMAs of Bro Aeron Mydr and Glyn Aeron Coastal for a joint service on the beach at New Quay, next to the lifeboat station, in support of the Mission to Seafarers.

Members of the churches, lifeboat station and holiday makers joined in the service led by Revd Beth Davies and Revd Fran Croxon-Hall with the theme of those who serve, work, fish or save lives on the seas and waters of the world but especially the waters of Cardigan Bay.

The kindness of strangers

Sioned Cray – a contestant in the recent BBC TV series Race Across the World – on the kindness of strangers that kept them going during such an exhausting challenge.

"In a world that is often defined by urgency, stress and self-interest, it's easy to overlook the quiet but powerful force that holds everything together: kindness..."

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Waldo Williams: The poetry of the Preselis

Regarded by many as among the 20th century’s greatest Welsh poets, Waldo Williams (1904-1971) grew up within sight of the Preseli Hills and they are the subject of one of his best-known works.

A lifelong pacifist, Preseli was composed in 1946 as a protest against plans to turn the area into a permanent military training ground.

Hume Gravell describes the three hills in the poem that the poet calls “the wall of my boyhood”

Take to the hills

Seven miles of therapy

Alun Ifans is convinced a good walk is a way to solve all sorts of problems – walks like this one…

Clive Fane de Salis describes some right places, and some wrong ones, on his journey to becoming a Reader.

An everyday guide to spirituality

Title: Faith Habits and How to Form Them

Author: Emma Timms

Publisher: SPCK

Published - July 2025 (paperback)

ISBN - 9780281091317

Retreat guide and spiritual director Emma Timms shares 21 spiritual practices that will both feed your soul and fit with the life you are actually living.

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Please note: the copy deadline for the December edition is November 3rd., not December 3rd as published in the printed version.

“We’ve got work to do” – Archbishop Cherry takes the helm