The Hearth of Mopsus

As I've been (mainly) off this week, I was able to catch bits of Tuesday's edition of the Today programme on Radio 4, guest-edited b...

At Banvale Church along the way they've finally completed a rebuilding project that's taken twelve years from inception through argu...

The Bishop is supposedly keen on the concept of Borough Deans, clergy who will have regular conversations with local authorities and act as ...

A few weeks ago we touched on Will Self’s reasons for going to church, and this morning on the magic wireless journalist Sara Wheeler decid...

How do you read Caravaggio's  The Calling of St Matthew ? Which figure is the evangelist - the bearded man in the black hat, or the youn...

One of the actions listed in our Church Development Plan is to equip our people with more practical advice on talking about faith. When I, G...

Last week I was saying Evensong when I became aware someone had come in. It turned out to be a gentleman of about 40, who was sitting in a p...

Widelake Secondary School has been almost uncharted territory for me in all the time I've been in Swanvale Halt. There is a Christian ec...

  Would anyone come to our first attempt at Forest Church? In the end there were 15 doughty souls (including me) who took the path through t...

I am still on leave but I don't mind breaking into the succession of holiday snaps to report briefly on what we did for Harvest this yea...

The hall at the independent school not far away was full enough not to make the Archbishop's 'Big Questions' event in our deaner...

Messy Church in March 2020 was the last special event we staged before the first lockdown, going ahead only after a lot of indecision. We...

In March 2020, I went doorknocking - visiting houses which had recently changed hands - for what would turn out to be the last time in seven...

It is the infelicitous description of trained, paid clergy as ‘limiting factors’ on church growth in a recent report on church planting whic...

Before the webinar on Monday evening, I thought the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to the Guildford Diocese scheduled for September wa...

'The problem is with this unit', said the man from the security company to myself and Hannah the churchwarden yesterday morning, tap...

You might have thought, given what I’ve said in the past and my interest in the interior arrangements of church buildings, that I am a stea...

I had the sequence of the changes we'd made to our children's ministry at Swanvale Halt in my mind, but, when I looked back in prepa...

Amazing what you can find in churches. On the same day that I called in at Shere Church  I also visited St Thomas's, Chilworth, an odd...

' The Archbishop of York has pinched your idea !' said Marion the curate in an email to me this Monday. Of course it wasn't my...