The gospel lectionary reading for the so-called Last Sunday after Trinity (or Trinity 22) in this Year B is the story of the healing of blind Bartimaeus in Mark 10.46–52. (Apologies to my regular ...
Some years ago, one of the fringe meetings at a session of the General Synod focussed on the needs of ‘mid-sized churches’, in this case defined as worshipping communities of 20 to 60. The reason for ...
‘The hardest work I’ve ever done, and the most stressful, was as a parish priest—mainly because it was isolated, insatiably demanding and I was on the whole working without close colleagues—and that ...