Someone said to me recently ‘You’ve been affected by that church closing haven’t you?’ Well, yes and no. Yes: it was the first church I was sent to, you can’t minister dispassionately- wherever you go it is part of you, …

I’ve heard it said too much; too much that it became a cliche- ‘God’s ways are not our ways’. By ‘too much’ I mean that faced with questions, longings or just plain ‘shit happening’, it has been said because just …

I came across this a few weeks back by a Church of England Bishop writing about a scheme to combine 3 dioceses into one:-

‘I understand what lies behind the fear of change, loss and uncertainty……. But, this is what …

I remember an acronym: ‘P.u.s.h”: ‘Pray until something happens’. Even at the time, I felt slightly uneasy about this: it seemed to edge towards a very mechanistic view of prayer- prayer, stripped of mystery or yearning and transformed into a …

Every Christian worship service I have been to has had confession and repentence as part of it. If you are outside the Christian tradition or hostile to it, that may sound like self flagelation. Done improperly it can be. As …