21 March 2024
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There was a useful article by Andrew Horton published on Premier Christianity’s website this week: Is the Church facing a cost-of-serving crisis? His answer seems to be yes. It is very easy for churches to put out messages about all … Continue reading
16 March 2022
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I didn’t quite have a whole day of rest, as I was leading the toddler’s group for the first half of this morning and then had a staff meeting taking me up to lunch time, but I’ve taken it pretty … Continue reading
9 March 2021
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While chatting with a friend tonight, I was trying to remember a poem. In theory, sitting at a computer and being able to search the internet ought to make that easy but it didn’t help that I had the line … Continue reading
5 December 2019
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One of the unexpected but welcome things I was given as part of my new worship pastor job was a copy of the Church of England Lectionary 2020. It’s an ecclesiastical document and follows its own inner logic and actually … Continue reading
3 November 2019
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I’m back in Oxford for the next couple of days after the end of my first stint up in Thorpe Acre in the worship pastor post at All Saints. It has been a good beginning, meeting lots of people new … Continue reading
16 September 2019
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Yesterday was a very musical day – leading at church in the morning on electric guitar, a couple of sets of double bass playing with Mudslide Morris (and Rich) in the afternoon and a rehearsal for next week’s blues service … Continue reading
19 April 2018
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Listening to a recent Stand-Up Special by Ruby Wax on Radio 4, I was struck by how ‘churchy’ her Frazzled Café events sounded. Without explicit prayer or worship, they reach to the same congregation that churches, at their best, find … Continue reading
1 January 2018
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At the end of last week, the Daily Mail made a big splash of news about the substantial increase of antidepressant prescriptions in the UK over the past 15 years. In round terms, about 10% of the population take medication … Continue reading
1 November 2015
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One of the things that marks the Bible out as an unusual and remarkable collection of books (apart from, you know, being the Word of God and all the other theological distinctives) is that it exists in so many translations. … Continue reading
1 August 2015
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No printing today! Instead I’ve been out playing some jazz instead for an event near Reading. Fun… but not quite the lazing around I could have done with after a busy week. Maybe tomorrow…