Category: Church Matters

The challenge all churches face is not just to attract worshippers, but to keep worshippers. How do we keep, and

Compassion, it has been said, is “the cardinal virtue of the Christian pastoral tradition”.   Christian pastors by definition are compassionate

Some might wonder whether an eight-day visit to Lebanon provides sufficient basis for reflection. However, this was actually my third

After a recent eight day visit to Lebanon the following impressions and reflections come to mind:- LEBANON IS A POWDER

Just this week I finished reading Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China From the Gobi Desert to

For the last four weeks the dining room table has been full of retirement cards. But now is the time

In this season of Easter let’s remind ourselves that faith in the God of resurrection impacts not just the future,

The first ‘word’ of the seven so-called ‘words’ of Jesus from the cross is the most extraordinary: “Father, forgive them;

In the week that Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer in Britain, declared that obesity is now so common

‘Truth through personality’. What a wonderful definition of preaching! Preaching is not just the communication of truth – it is