Category: Church Matters

This is the second of a series of reflections which have been stimulated by my reading Stephen Cottrell’s recently published

I have just read with great profit On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers and Sentinels (Hodder & Stoughton, London 2020.  177pp:

The older I get, the more difficult I find it not to be cynical about other people. I would imagine

Every day Caroline and I watch the daily government briefing on the pandemic, and every day mention is made of

“There’s never been a better time to be an introvert”, wrote Marie Le Conte, a free-lance journalist based in London.

I’m a great believer in planning. Indeed, there is Biblical precedent for planning. According to the Book of Proverbs, it

One of the most difficult of consequences arising from the coronavirus pandemic is that funerals have had to change. To

Book of the month The New Testament in Its World: An introduction to the history, literature, and theology of the

The UK is in lockdown and has been since mid-March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Churches remain shut.

I would love to do a survey of ministers in the UK to find out how they are using their