What is it like when your family gets together?, ot just one or two members but the whole tribe?
It's noisy, fun, challenging, inspirational, and...the list could go on and on. It sounds like the Church!
Read MoreWhat is it like when your family gets together?, ot just one or two members but the whole tribe?
It's noisy, fun, challenging, inspirational, and...the list could go on and on. It sounds like the Church!
Read MoreSo we all want the people in our parishes to be growing in their faith. But how can you measure whether that is happening?? Setting some kind of benchmarks can enable measurement.
Read MorePeople are so visual these days that good resources are needed to draw people into a closer relationship with Scripture. One group creating such videos are The Bible Project.
Read MoreWant to resource your parishioners with the latest events, news, ideas and strategies to enable us all to be better stewards of creation? Or just want some of those ideas yourself, for projects at your church?
Read MoreRead this sentence: In Texas, two brothers, one just trying to do the honourable thing, one just a little wild (and doomed to a dark end) stage bank jobs whilst being pursued by a day-before-retirement lawman. It sounds like a cliché, doesn’t it? Yet Hell of High Water takes that simple plot and...
Read MoreIt can be easy to sum up the work of Spanish director Almodovar in a few words: Gaudy, loud, controversial, melodramatic. Yet Julieta confirms new strings to the director’s bow while maintaining some links with his past.
Read MoreWhilst some may claim The Beatles: Eight Days a Week tells us nothing new, that's churlish in the extreme. The Spotify generation for whom music is a digital abstraction deserve to experience the cheek, the chemistry, the wonder of The Beatles in full flight, on stage, in the studio and before the press where their wit is infectious. With more personality than any current chart toppers can muster, Ron Howard's Eight Days a Week captures a musical, social and cultural phenomenon with joy and wonderful verve.
Read MoreThe big difference with the two new 360 Project modules is this: your own local expert, whether that be your parish priest or one from a neighbouring parish can lead them. Or even a lay person with some theological training behind them.
The modules have presenter's notes that assist in this process. But you still wouldn't want to just pick one up and lead it. There's more to it than that.
Read MoreNever got around to doing the Introduction to the Bible module of BIBLE360?
Here's your chance!
Read MoreOkay, let's get to the point. There are new modules. There's a new approach. And there 's new streams... It's all new!
Read MoreChoosing the Right Curriculum
What curriculum is right for your congregation's Christian Formation program? The answer starts with asking a series of questions. But what are those questiuons???
The Church of England’s Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell, has suggested that churches should “renegotiate the Sunday contract” to include adult Sunday schools and eating together.
Read MoreThe path of reconciliation is a good path to travel. But we talk about it a lot; some wonder how they can actually get on the way. What's a step in the right direction?
There are a lot of answers to that question but one is certainly to do anything that fosters deeper understandings of ourselves and others.
And one way to do that is to...
Read MoreWriting a letter after someone has lost someone is difficult. Working out what to say and how to say it can be like walking on egg shells. You don't want to be trite or use cliches; those things lose their meaning during such hard times. And yet writing a letter, a real pen-on-paper letter is surely a good thing to do. So what can you do?
Read MoreIt's great fun to chat about books you've been reading with others, especially if they've read the same book. So a book club that discusses a book and adds in a faith dimension? That sounds like a great idea! Eve James at The Roscoe Library, St Francis Theological College is starting Reading with Spiritual Eyes. It's just such a book club!
Read MoreDuring a Marrakesh holiday to rekindle a fractured relationship, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris) make acquaintance with loud Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard). University lecturer Perry in particular falls under Dima’s spell, yet it is his desire to do the right thing that has him agreeing to...
Read MoreAfter the success of BIBLE360: Introduction to the Bible, it made sense to expand the project to include opportunities for learning in other areas related to faith and faith formation. Using the distinctive '360' concept of exploring issues from all sides, you see before you: The 360 Project!
Read MoreThe big difference with the two new 360 Project modules is this: your own local expert, whether that be your parish priest or one from a neighbouring parish can lead them. Or even a lay person with some theological training behind them.
The modules have presenter's notes that assist in this process. But you still wouldn't want to just pick one up and lead it. There's more to it than that.
Read MoreProphets get a bad name. Aren't they all to do with doom and gloom? Or are they? And what's that got to do with my life as a Christian today?
Read MoreSo if spirituality is an individual thing, have you ever wondered just what yours is like? I mean, in ways differentdifferent to someone else's? Imagine if there was a wayto work out just what your own particular spirituality is? That would mean you could work out just what kind of things you need to do in your life to help your faith grow!
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