Category: Church Matters

Ministers are by definition ‘servants’ – servants of Christ and servants for Christ’s sake of others – for the very

My book of the month is Where is God in a Coronavirus World? (The Good Book Company, Epsom 2020. 64pp:

This is my third reflection on Stephen Cottrell’s thought-provoking book, On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels and Stewards (read the

This is the second of a series of reflections which have been stimulated by my reading Stephen Cottrell’s recently published

I have just read with great profit On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers and Sentinels (Hodder & Stoughton, London 2020.  177pp:

The older I get, the more difficult I find it not to be cynical about other people. I would imagine

Every day Caroline and I watch the daily government briefing on the pandemic, and every day mention is made of

“There’s never been a better time to be an introvert”, wrote Marie Le Conte, a free-lance journalist based in London.

I’m a great believer in planning. Indeed, there is Biblical precedent for planning. According to the Book of Proverbs, it

One of the most difficult of consequences arising from the coronavirus pandemic is that funerals have had to change. To