Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first went in too, and he saw and believed…

by Rev. Antony W. Ball Trouble is, we don’t even know for sure who that ‘disciple who had reached the tomb first’ was, we’re just told that ‘he saw and believed’. We think it might have been the apostle John (the writer of the Gospel) who mysteriously refers a couple of times1 to ‘the disciple […]

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Turning the Tanker (Part Two) – We Must First Build the Bridge for Others to Cross

by Phil Andrews A visitor to our Church building some months ago tried to explain to us a concept which his own Church had had some success in pursuing. The word he used to describe it was “circles”. The idea was a relatively simple one. We on the inside of the Church are few and […]

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Turning the Tanker (Part One) – Decline Doesn’t Have to Be Inevitable

by Phil Andrews Our January Church Meeting attracted the grand total of four people. Three of them were deacons. Even if my tentative suggestion that we reduce the quorum at Church Meetings from eight to six had been put to a vote and carried, we would still have been inquorate in January. February’s showing was […]

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April Fool

by Donald A.G. Burling Could there be any connection between our April Fool tradition and the festival we call Easter? The idea seems at first thought almost blasphemous. Yet I remember reading somewhere that on April 1st junior clergy used to indulge in foolery that parodied divine service. The name of Easter is supposed to […]

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