Humpty Dumpty

Forty years ago Pip Burley unexpectedly shared a railway compartment with Diana Rigg. It happened late one winter’s night on the line...

When William Carey set off for India in 1793, he started a movement that set UK churches ablaze. One generation after another joined an...

We have had our fill of scandals. The churches have not been immune. And this has come at a juncture in our history when we are urged to...

Congregations are a mixed lot. Some are in church on Sundays because they find their parish church a place where the Gospel is preached...

‘There is more than one way of killing the cat than choking it with cream,’ said Humpty. He was reminding me that the main-line churches...

Most of us are right-handed. Good for us! We give no thought to the fact that to be left-handed is to be disadvantaged. Our world is...

Blind spots? There’s no end to them. We forget the ten per cent minority who are left-handed and blithely expect them to make the best of...

‘Humpty,’ I called out. ‘I have a question for you. How much Greek do you know?’ ‘Isosceles,’ he replied. ‘Oh, and pi and alpha.’ Yes,...

The lockdown is, wait for it, likely to have lasting effects. One such effect is the survival of the parish as a basic Christian unit. Of...

Indiana Jones can’t stand snakes. He suffers from the most common of the phobias – ophidiophobia. So do most of us. Of so I am told....

There is a phalanx of churches in Surrey that is flying the flag for the idea that an attractive parish magazine is a vital component of...