Category: Church Matters

Meetings are often the bane of a church’s life. They can be such a waste of time. Indeed, I rather

The apostles had a very specific role: their chief task was to be witnesses of the resurrection. But the church

In Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England (Church House Publishing, 2000) the suggested structure for the

How would you define true love? According to a girl called Lauren: “True love is not about the hugs and

The other weekend we celebrated Caroline’s 70th birthday. Alas, the Scriptures have little positive to say about such a milestone.

“When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to

Will we know one another when we die? This was the concern of a good friend whose sister-in-law is in

Grieving is part of the cost of loving and the normal response to the loss of a significant person in

In Common Worship: Services and Prayer for the Church of England there is a beautiful post-communion prayer to be said

Whereas in the past readings at a church wedding were almost exclusively taken from the Bible, today it is common