Category: Church Matters

A little while ago I was at a function where I was asked to say a ‘secular’ grace.  I refused

Ministry can be a lonely business. Just check Google and you will see a host of entries featuring the loneliness

Can there be life without emails?   It is almost impossible to life without them.  Yet, of course, emails are a

In my recent survey of Bible reading habits of Baptist ministers, the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible was

Earlier this year I sent out a survey to ministers serving churches belonging to the Baptist Union of Great Britain

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great Victorian ‘prince of preachers’,  pastored the same Baptist church for 38 years – and every

Grieving is part of the cost of loving and takes time.  It is generally reckoned that the grieving process can

Years’ ago we Brits didn’t cry – or at least not in public. However, a survey of some 2000 adults

I have just taken part in a formal external review of the mission and ministry of Chelmsford Cathedral – or

This week I have spent four hours putting political leaflets through doors.  My children are appalled, for they support another