Opinionated Vicar

At time of writing, there is still no guidance for public worship, which is supposed to be permissible from next Sunday. That disconcerting ...

The United Reformed Church has produced a discussion paper for local church leadership on 'The New Normal'. It covers a variety of p...

discovered on Facebook, clever. People do have genuine reasons for leaving/not being part of a church, but most of them aren't the one...

So, a mixed bag, as were the priests. A third of them I found to be great, with a handful quite life-changingly brilliant. Another third we...

There are all sorts of minefields you think you need to overcome when you first start going to Church. Like where to sit. Everyone has thei...

'Everyone welcome!' proclaims the poster outside the church. Is this a statement of fact, or a piece of marketing? It all depends on...

They teach that people should love their neighbour* but a major new study shows that churches are one of the few places most modern Briton...

An inspiring, challenging and encouraging talk 'the global church in the 21st century' by the AB of C at the Parliamentary Prayer Br...

As a change from normal practice, I'm preaching at our local Elim Pentecostal church this Sunday. On hearing this at the tea table, one ...

How welcoming is your church. Really? Honestly? Excellent piece from our Archdeacon: ......when I'm on holiday and go to the local pa...

A couple of great stories have gone up on the Fresh Expressions site, one of a Car Boot Fair church - something I've long wondered abou...

News from St. Pauls : Capital Vision 2020 has the goal of creating or renewing a hundred worshipping communities and doubling the number ...

It's both encouraging, and slightly discouraging, to find that both the CofE and the Methodist church now have a good set of resources t...

Somewhere there is bound to be a study on the optimum number of e-newsletters it's possible to receive, before the information overload ...

ouch, little bit too close to the bone this one. I'm not a very good delegater! (delegator?). And that guitar looks exactly like mine,...

I came across the following snippet in an Anglican course designed for local churches. It's an audio interview, and I'm still chewin...

Bob Jackson claims in his excellent ' Everybody Welcome' course that if churches could simply retain more of the people who come t...

A church on Exmoor has stepped in following the closure of a local gym , and is hosting 'bring and share' gymn sessions 5 times a we...

Care for the Family have just published the results of a survey of over 1000 churches on what ministry and support they provide to the bere...

There's a superb free ebook on offer at Andrew Brims' blog , which is really worth a look. It's very well written, with some gre...