Church News

The Sacred Art of Joking by James Cary - Review

If I had a quid for every time I heard the joke ‘A Christian without Christ is just Ian’, I might have enough money to bribe Ian back to Church again. Ok, so one big rule in The Sacred Art of Joking is not to start a sermon with a joke. But this isn’t a sermon. So, hopefully, I’m off the...

February 27th, 2019 - Posted & Written by Aaron Lewendon

Care for the Family Working to Strengthen Families

A successful, national initiative aimed at giving fathers and father-figures an opportunity to spend more time with their young children and one another, has now become part of national family charity Care for the Family’s portfolio of parenting support resources, to enable it to grow and deve...

October 17th, 2018 - Posted & Written by Laura White

Spring Harvest 2019

This year’s festival had barely shut its doors, or packed away it’s tents, before the theme for Spring Harvest 2019 was announced. And that theme is...Unlimited. With a complete focus on prayer, Unlimited make full use of the tagline ‘When You Pray...’ by daring you to imagine what...

June 6th, 2018 - Posted & Written by Aaron Lewendon

#LiveLent - The All-New CofE Lent Booklet

What do you do for Lent? For some it’s a period of withdrawal, of turning away from the world for a brief period to focus on personal faith. For some it’s a time of deepening, and for others it’s a chance to give up something that gets in the way of faith. Often Lent is a time of inwa...

February 5th, 2018 - Posted & Written by Aaron Lewendon

Come on church

The recent news from the USA regarding Family Christian prompts me to put pen to paper. Much has been said by many this side of the pond, about the state of the UK Christian bookselling market. But am I the only one who picks up on what is said to be the demise of the ‘High Street’, the rise...