Our local hospital has developed a set of values, from which I would suggest any church could learn. Throughout the
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Small groups make honest conversations possible
This is the time of year when small groups (often known as home groups, fellowship groups or life groups) start
Continue readingA capable wife
At a formal dinner this coming Saturday Caroline will formally become President of the Coroners Society of England and Wales
Continue readingGathering a harvest of righteousness
At this time of the year when here in the UK the harvest is being gathered in, I thought it
Continue readingBooks for Today – September 2018
Book of the month Available in the UK through Alban of Edinburgh, Sinners and Saints: The Real Story of Early
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This summer we have had the joy of a family holiday, when all our four children and their families –
Continue readingMentoring: a need that can be met
Amazing as it now seems, when I first was a minister of a church, there was nobody to guide me.
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I am at the stage of life when I seem to be constantly writing letters of condolence to friends who
Continue readingWho would true valour see: a great hymn for a funeral
[In this blog I have drawn upon Hymns That Live (Hodder & Stoughton 2008) by Frank Colqhoun] In a recent
Continue readingRites of passage and pastoral care
It was Arnold van Gennep, a French anthropologist, who in 1909 coined the phrase ‘rite of passage’. He noticed, as
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