Category: Church Matters

Book of the month The Hardest Part: A Centenary Critical Edition (SCM, London 2018. 231pp: £25) edited by Thomas O’Loughlin

I am excited, for my latest book, This Is My Story: A Story of Life, Faith, and Ministry (ISBN 13:

I confess that I have never been sporty – I only played for the school second XV.   But I have

In my twenties I thought that anybody over the age of 40 was old. From the perspective of ancient society,

I shall never forget visiting an elderly couple and asking ‘Who are your friends in the church?’ They began to

In the Lectionary of the Church of England Richard Baxter (17 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) is commemorated this

Good leadership of any church is vital. True, a church’s destiny ultimately is in God’s hands. But, in the short

Today is Corpus Christi, Latin for ‘the body of Christ’ and one of the biggest festivals of the Roman Catholic

Today, 24 May, is what Methodists call ‘Aldersgate Day’. It marks the day in 1738 when John Wesley experienced the

“All the believers were gathered together in one place” (2.1 GNB). Luke in Acts 1.15 speaks of there being “120”