Category: Church Matters

Over the years I have argued extensively on the need for leadership in the church. For instance, in the opening

In the ancient Graeco-Roman world people at every level were obsessed with collecting honorary and official titles. They wanted their

As followers of this blog will know, I host and run a fellowship group in Chelmsford Cathedral. It wasn’t something

Some people are childless by choice. To my surprise I discovered that 20% of American women are in that category.

In a way I have never known before, Britain has become a bitterly divided country, and whatever the outcome of

Two books of the month Anything which encourages people to read the Bible, I warmly commend, although I have reservations

Just over a week ago I was in El Alamein – that desert waste in the North of Egypt where

I was going to entitle this blog ‘Spirit-led prayers in public worship are rarely extempore’, but on reflection felt that

Life is tough and none of us escapes unscathed. In differing ways all of us end up being wounded. I

One of the most fascinating chapters in the New Testament is Romans 16. Yet at first sight it is one