Category: Church Matters

In the church calendar December 28 is the Day of the Holy Innocents – the day when children were massacred

As turkey and Christmas pudding belong together, so too do the shepherds and the baby Jesus.     Christmas without “shepherds abiding

I love Christmas – and all the Christmas services.  Yet in the memory all too often one special service merges

Most mothers are excited when they know a baby is on the way. Mary wouldn’t have been human if she

“Not all readers are leaders”, said Harry Truman, a former US American President, “but all leaders are readers”.   What is

Earlier this autumn a headline in The Telegraph proclaimed: ‘Bible passage used to stop women become ordained “added later”, academic

On Sunday morning 17 November 1957, along with eleven others, at the relatively young age of thirteen, I was baptised

We have had a wonderful harvest this autumn.  The small vine on the south side of our house produced a

2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.  For it was on 31st October 1517 that Martin Luther protested against

November is a month for remembering. November 1st is All Saints Day, when many remember past friends and loved ones.