Category: Church Matters

In this series of reflections based on Stephen Cottrell’s seminal book, On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels and Stewards, this

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