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Category: church

  • toxic church

    ‘News International’ has become ‘News UK’ in an attempt at what the BBC News website is calling “brand decontamination”. Following a procession of bad publicity and scandals the organisation has changed its name. A change of name won’t change much. I suspect it will not make much difference unless there is an associated change of culture and…

  • I ought to write a bloggage…

    ‘Ought’ is a mean word. It carries with it a sense of compulsion, of obligation, of duty that can drive us forward in obedience but without passion or enthusiasm: “I ought to do the washing up.” “I ought to get out of bed.” “I ought to get some exercise.” “I ought to go on a…

  • pointing out the obvious

    I am fascinated by these arrows. I came across this image long ago, when I was in my first church, and it has remained with me ever since as a powerful image with a significant message for churches. When you look at them, what do you see? Red arrows pointing outwards? Is that all that…

  • who are you going to call?

    In the last couple of days I have had 2 experiences of things needing fixing. I bought a new car radio for Sally’s car as a birthday present. I was fairly confident of my ability to fit the new radio and managed to get it seated properly and connected properly with only a small quantity…

  • statistically speaking again

    I have noticed a trend with the visits you are making to my blog. When someone else advertises a bloggage lots more of you visit than on the other occasions. That’s what the chart above reveals. The significant peaks in views and visits coincide with the occasions when one of my bloggages was featured on…

  • organic music

    I feel the need for some church-related silliness. These actually happened: I was there (as a teenager). A church organist decided to play some more contemporary ‘voluntaries’ in the services and discovered that some enterprising Christians had written some lyrics for well-known tunes. Sadly, few people in the church knew of the worshipful lyrics, so…

  • the inevitability of disappointing church services?

    I’m currently searching for inspiration for our Mothering Sunday service this week. I find that this is one of the most difficult services of the year to prepare. That’s not because the subject is difficult. Neither is it because I don’t have any ideas. It’s because it is one of the services where different people…

  • setting boundaries

    Isn’t it amazing how God draws things to our attention when he’s trying to tell us something? Well, perhaps it’s not amazing because he often does it. It’s more that I’m amazed that he persists with me. Last week I was sent an e-mail about something I had shared with the church a long time…

  • Post the first from the conference (see yesterday)

    So, the conference has begun. I am not sure what the collective noun for Baptist Ministers would be: A splash? A hubbub? An ostentatious humility? A dissent? Whatever it is, we have got one. The collective noun for ‘Christians’ is ‘church’. We are church when we are together. At this conference we are a temporary…

  • cynicism

    Is it just me, or are scams getting more elaborate? Are criminal minds getting more intelligent? Look at how many super-villains have PhD qualifications: Dr Evil, Dr No, Dr Octopus, Dr Doofenshmirtz and even Professor Moriarty! Where are they getting these qualifications? Yesterday I heard of an elaborate scam where someone contacts the victim and…