The Church wants to be both relevant and different; it needs to be able to speak to people where they are but also make a positive difference. The gospel needs to be inculturated: the good news of Jesus’ life, death More …

During Holy Week we enjoyed a remarkable Easter School immersed in Matthew’s Gospel.  We read it  together (all of it), studied it, worshipped with it and imagined it in ‘engagement groups’.  Building on the reading, study and worship, these groups More …

The government proposes to suspend Sunday Trading Laws in England and Wales during this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. If this eventually paves the way for more permanent relaxation of Sunday trading regulations, all of us – not just the More …

What would you have done? (question put to me in recent days) Whilst the details surrounding the tragic murder of Rev John Suddards may be unclear, the fact that this happened in a parish near my own has provoked no More …

I love games, so do my children. I used to be (and maybe I still am) rather serious about really trying to win. Winning is important otherwise a game is no fun. If one of the participants doesn’t really mind More …

The tiny south pacific island of Samoa greeted the arrival of 2012 very early – thanks to having moved across the international dateline at the end of 2011. They are now in sync with their neighbours and closest trading partners, More …

We’re delighted to see that one of our placement supervisors, Gavin Tyte, has just won The Nativity Factor – an ITN and Jerusalem Productions online competition to create an innovative 3 minute film retelling the nativity. Gavin is a professional More …

What would Jesus do? The banners outside St Paul’s (and elsewhere) ask this question. A matter of simple geography put the church suddenly and visibly in the middle of the argument and the well used slogan suddenly became a useful More …

Last weekend I enjoyed being part of the Urban Church & Community weekend. On Saturday we travelled to Southampton where our hosts were the Central Baptist Church. Chris Davis MBE, Southampton City Missioner for the past fifteen years gave a More …

If you are reading this blog you are probably a digital native, well used to visiting websites. Experts tell us that we now read things differently. Our eyes flit across the page, collecting information from here and there, rather than More …