Category: Church Matters

I am a Christian because I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. Over the years I have had

It is all too easy to jump from Palm Sunday with its story of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem to

“Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you

In my diary the fourth Sunday of Lent (this year Sunday 18 March 2012) is marked as ‘Mothering Sunday’. On

In Double Cream (Monarch 1988), an anthology of Christian witticism collected by Stephen Gaukroger and Nick Mercer, there is a

In the Pastorals, ‘hospitality’ is a key qualification for pastoral office: Paul tells Timothy (1 Tim 3.2) that a ‘bishop’

The English word ‘Lent’ means ‘Spring’. But Lent is not primarily a spring festival, but rather a pre-Easter period of

This week I came across two American studies on inviting people to church According to the first study: Three out

“I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Matt 25.35). These words of Jesus found in the Parable of the

“There is no sound so sweet as the sound of one’s own name”, said William Shakespeare. And he’s right. People