Category: Church Matters

This is the time of year when small groups (often known as home groups, fellowship groups or life groups) start

At a formal dinner this coming Saturday Caroline will formally become President of the Coroners Society of England and Wales

At this time of the year when here in the UK the harvest is being gathered in, I thought it

Book of the month Available in the UK through Alban of Edinburgh, Sinners and Saints: The Real Story of Early

This summer we have had the joy of a family holiday, when all our four children and their families –

Amazing as it now seems, when I first was a minister of a church, there was nobody to guide me.

I am at the stage of life when I seem to be constantly writing letters of condolence to friends who

[In this blog I have drawn upon Hymns That Live (Hodder & Stoughton 2008) by Frank Colqhoun] In a recent

It was Arnold van Gennep, a French anthropologist, who in 1909 coined the phrase ‘rite of passage’. He noticed, as

The three major events of life – birth, marriage, and death – are marked by three traditional Christian rites of