Category: Church Matters

According to some research undertaken by the Campaign for Real Christmas almost ten years, many church members shy away from

I could not believe it! This morning I discovered that my wife had bought what are essentially secular Christmas cards.

This week I received an e-mail from my friend Chris Skilton: I have never preached from a full text nor

When I was a young minister in my late 20s if a meeting at church finished by 9.30 pm, then

At our last leadership team weekend away our speaker was Terry Calkin, the pastor of a Green Lane Christian Centre,

The four irreducible necessities of life are water, shelter, oxygen and food. However, life would be pretty limited if that

‘The Reverend’ is the style most often used as a prefix to the names of Christian ministers. It is for instance

According to Jonathan Gledhill, the Anglican Bishop of Lichfield, church services have become too long; he recommends that clergy should

Over the years I have experimented with a variety of ‘strap lines’ for the church. At one stage, for instance,

According to the Oxford Compact English Dictionary, an experiment is ‘a course of action tentatively adopted without being sure of