Category: Church Matters

Ministers can be appalling correspondents. Experience has taught me that as a rule of thumb at least 25% of ministers

This year I thought I would do something in Lent for my seven grandchildren. I began with the intention of

My first and last health check as a minister took place over forty years ago – just before I went

 Underneath the headline ‘We are born to believe in God’ there was an article in The Sunday Times which began::

When I step down from leading the church here in Chelmsford, the likelihood is that my successor will need to

To my surprise and delight this Christmas I was given a beautiful Victorian ‘prie-dieu’. ‘What’s a prie-dieu?’, you may ask.

At our staff Christmas lunch ‘Secret Santa’ gave me a collection of 365 ‘pick-me-ups’ to help me have ‘a really

Normally when my head hits the pillow, I fall fast asleep. And for that I am grateful. However, sleep doesn’t

In Chester Cathedral there is an old clock with the following inscription: When as a child I laughed and wept,

The other day I had to have a tooth out – but thank God, before the dentist yanked it out,