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 …

So, time for some hope; of a kind.

The last service in this church that is closing will be on Friday 24th May. This is a day in Methodist churches that is sometimes known as ‘Wesley Day’- a day when …

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I have never (yet) been a minister when one of the churches I have been assigned to has voted to close. That is not a boast: just an observation- I expect it will happen one day.…

I got a text last weekend from someone who I know in North Wales. The details were sparse, but the first church I was sent to, St John’s, Colwyn Bay – now St John’s Uniting- is closing in a couple …

Well…. I have seen better, but that is about the limit of what my mobile can do.

I went for a lovely walk last Sunday with friends over the Great Orme in Llandudno. This is looking towards Penmaenmawr with Snowdonia …