Church humour from the cartoonist James Mellor ⚽
#worldcup #cartoons
"Secrecy is a key theme in the book"
📚 Alexander Faludy reviews Himmler’s Curtains: A memoir of loss and concealment by Simon Weisz
#HeinrichHimmler #Books
"Every couple is unique, and all have brought something different to my understanding, not only of the minister’s task, but of the nature of marriage itself."
In peak #wedding season, Sally Welch reflects on her experience as an officiant 💍
"If more than half of the 11.8 million immigrants are Christian, what should the response of the Churches be?"
John Griffiths takes a look at the data about migration in Europe and considers what the implications are for Churches
#migration #WCC
“When I’m working with the women, I don’t take it as work, I take it as ministry."
A sewing training scheme is just one of the Mothers Union's projects helping women in Rwanda. Naomi Wellings visits
#MothersUnion
"It is a powerful book for everyone, from parish safeguarding officers to clergy and people in the pews who wonder why it is that the Church often seems to respond so ineptly to survivors of abuse," ✍️ Sue Atkinson 📚
#Books #safeguarding
"What one person may accept as appropriate warning or rebuke another may find devastating," ✍️ Angela Tilby
#spiritualabuse
"An engaging retelling can prompt deep and enriching theological explorations."
As a production of #JesusChristSuperstar returns to the West End in London, Stephen Cherry recalls the impact of an earlier staging
Notebook: Patrick Kidd on the variety in weekly obituaries, enjoying funerals, eulogies, muscular Christianity, and school memories
🎨 Nicholas Cranfield sees a gathering-in of Van Dyck’s work in #Genoa
“GOD lives in people and he’s sent me to help you.” These were the words spoken to Assumpta, a single parent, by one of the Mothers’ Union members at a time when she and her nine children faced eviction from their home in Rwanda. That intervention...
WANTING to describe the most memorable wedding I have ever taken has proved impossible. More than any other church service, weddings seem to attract incident — whether because emotions run so high or the legal aspects are so critical, the often ho...
SIMON WEISZ’s memoir of intergenerational Holocaust trauma takes its title from a twist in the story of his Hungarian-Jewish mother, Ildikó. Having survived stays in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, a period of slave labour in Berlin, and then a retreat...
“SPIRITUAL abuse” is a term that crops up in the Church’s continuing debate about safeguarding. It could be defined as the use of threats of damnation or divine disfavour to compel or prohibit particular actions or beliefs. An example might be att...
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WHEN I learned that Mapping Migration, 4th Edition was available on the World Council of Churches’ website (and soon in print), I felt some misgivings. The binary nature of public debate means that facts — any facts — tend to be simultaneously emb...
THIS is a gem of a book. Beth Keith is a vicar in Sheffield, and her book is a “theological and pastoral response to the particular challenges that come with being a survivor [of abuse] within the Christian faith”. As such, it is a powerful book f...
Life lines THE last conversation I had with my former director of studies at Cambridge was after I had written the Times obituary of one of his colleagues. The deceased was a colourful character — one of those euphemisms that imply that the subjec...
NOT long after the extensive reordering of All Saints’, Loughborough (where I was Rector), I was approached by someone who had sung in an ad hoc choir at a friend’s wedding there. “This is a fantastic place,” he said, “so dramatic. I’ve always wan...
THE architect Andrea Ceresola, called Il Vannone (d.1619), built over an existing city house for the doge of Genoa, transforming it into a grander palace in the 1590s and 1600s. A fire in the 1770s caused much damage, and Simone Cantoni provided a...
