Category: Church Matters

I have just looked at the latest set of church statistics and they make for sobering reading – and they

The other week I wrote to a friend: “I have been wondering how God would have me serve him in

Last week we looked at the epiphany of Christ, and the way in which Paul described his appearing in 2

Epiphany, traditionally January 6th, is the day in the church’s year when the ‘appearance’ of God to the world in

On Monday morning 1st December the phone went at 2.30. It was a nurse informing me that my 98-year-old mother

Today’s blog is different, for this week the theme is not Church Matters, but Family Matters. For tomorrow Caroline begins

“Everything has to come to an end, sometime”. So wrote Frank Bauman in The Marvelous Land of Oz, a sequel

My first experience of taking a funeral in ‘lockdown’ was in July. It was a graveside service with only twenty

My book of the month is Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times (Hodder & Stoughton,

In his book, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (SPCK, London 2019) Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal