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Category: church

  • Smelly Church

    Churches across the UK and across the world have been blessed by exploring the missional concept of ‘Messy Church’. If you don’t know what I am talking about have a look at the website here. We have run versions of Messy Church in our previous church and in our current one. But, inspired by the…

  • Blessings from Bonhoeffer

    I have been following a series of 40 daily readings from the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a German Christian pastor who was arrested for opposing Hitler during the Second World War. He died in captivity shortly before the end of the war.   These readings from the last couple of days made me think…

  • churches are female if you are stereotyping

    Tomorrow we have a community barbecue on our church forecourt. We will give away hot dogs and burgers, there will be music, face-painting and even a magician (I wonder who that might be?). One of our members is working flat out to make it all happen (pray for him and the team if you are a…

  • a cartoon that made me smile

    This CartoonChurch.com cartoon by Dave Walker originally appeared in the Church Times. Go to his site by clicking on the picture. It reminded me of some of the roped off areas at Canterbury Cathedral…

  • a short thought

    When Paul wrote to a church of Christians* in Rome, encouraging them to ‘rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep’ he was revealing a wonderfully profound truth: we’re in this together – for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health… Be blessed, be a…

  • Yay for Christmas!

    Let me start by saying that I love Christmas, and I love Colchester Baptist Church – they are wonderful. This is NOT a complaint it’s an observation and a reflection. If you sense any complaining or self-pity in this bloggage it has sneaked in without permission. ‘Bah, humbug’ is banned! People sometimes say to me…

  • does size matter?

    Dearest bloggists I am sorry that last week’s bloggages tailed off, and that this week’s might be somewhat intermittent. At the moment I am so busy that bees are asking me to slow down because I am making them look lazy. I don’t mind being that busy, but I find that while I am able…

  • an open letter to churches

    Dear Church First of all, let me say how brilliant you are. You are one of God’s best ideas (and he has had some awesome ones). Jesus had you in mind when he was walking and talking around Judea and you came into being at the most momentous moment in human history: born in the…

  • pit stop

    I am a part-time chaplain at the University of Essex. I have just received my new parking permit for 2013-14. I am designated as an ‘occasional user’. This means that I am not on the campus more than a couple of days a week at most. There are other categories for those who are on…

  • churches are like washing machines

    In the beginning was the washing machine. It stood silently in the kitchen, mouth slightly open, waiting for someone to feed it. Eventually the caretaker did feed it on its favourite diet of clothes that needed to be washed. They added seasoning in the form of washing powder and encouraged the machine to start chewing.…