Category: Church Matters

If we want to get the best from volunteers in our churches, then appreciation is what is required.

I have recently read with great interest a highly stimulating guide to funerals by Thomas G. Long, a Professor of

Christian worship, declared Karl Barth, “is the most momentous, the most urgent, the most glorious action that can take place

On Sunday 11 October there will be special service of Evensong in Chelmsford Cathedral to mark the fiftieth anniversary of

When not preaching away, I have enjoyed being an ordinary ‘punter’ on a Sunday at Chelmsford Cathedral, which in my

My latest book, Fifty Lessons in Ministry: Reflections after Fifty Years in Ministry has recently been published by Darton, Longman

My latest book, Fifty Lessons in Ministry: Reflections after Fifty Years in Ministry has recently been published by Darton, Longman

My book of the month is Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt (Hodder & Stoughton 2020.

In his collection of wide-ranging ordination addresses, On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels and Stewards, the last metaphor for ‘priesthood’

Stephen Cottrell in his recent book On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels and Stewards, devotes a good deal of space