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Some of my clearest memories of childhood are around attending Church. Whenever a service was offered—Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Holy Communion—we were there. Of those ...

Where does motivation come from? Are motivation and inspiration the same thing? How do we get it? Does it just happen to us when we ...

February is the beginning of Lent. The tradition in my family and many Christian families is to give up something for Lent. As a teenager, ...

For the last month or so, I have been working on revising the old planned giving brochure, which was called “Introduction to Planned Giving.” That ...

When I took this job, I decided that it wouldn’t be fair to talk about my own parish a lot. It’s worth saying though that ...

Last year, I wrote about how we need to stop talking about people working for the church as if they were ‘volunteers’ and start talking ...

In the aftermath of the Kosovo war, involving the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the former federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the ...

A number of years ago, while in the days of searching and seeking other Christian denominational traditions, one of the things that I used to ...

One of the most intimidating moments for a painter is staring at a blank canvas. Devoid of colour, line, or shape, the blank canvas represents ...

My career was as a teacher. Like my father before me, I taught English. I had the opportunity to teach many poems, plays, essays, novels ...