The pandemic has enforced a return to simpler times. With no gathering for corporate worship in person, and no audio-visual kit available to provide an alternative, weekly interaction has been reduced to a simple leaflet with a short reflection on the readings of the day: something that can lift the imagination beyond the confinement of spending up to 23 hours a day in a room with a lavatory, and place the individual in the perspective of God’s wider world, if only for a while.
Tag: Church Times
Protect the essentials at all costs: time for God; time for your family; and time for your ongoing training.
Letter to the Editor, Church Times 16 March 2018 Patterns of ministry in the C of E From the Revd Gill Kimber Sir, — Nigel Holmes (Letters, 9 March) writes of Readers’ being “encouraged to move seamlessly to ordained ministry unless they wished to stay lay”. He is, I think, missing the point. Dr Sentamu’s … Continue reading DEACONS AND READERS: letter to the Editor
Interview: Didier Rance, historian by Terence Handley MacMath 24 November 2017 ‘Being a Christian is not to have won an undeserved jackpot, but to help all people win this jackpot’ I always wanted to be a historian. I studied medieval history at the Sorbonne, and left for Egypt to work on a doctorate in comparative … Continue reading SHARING THE GRACE: Deacon Didier Rance
No, not the wheeled variety! In this interesting comment on the north-south divide and the failure of the C of E to take informed responsibility in poor areas, community theologian Ann Morisy says ‘the Church of Scotland, besides investing in coaching, provides additional full-time staff for each and every priority (poor) parish. The people appointed, … Continue reading DEACONS AS COMMUNITY COACHES
CofE Network of Distinctive Deacons 