The Times view of the C of E is that it is behind the times.  They pointed out that (A) only 1% of people in the UK regularly attend an Angl...

Many people say they sometimes feel like an imposter. And all of us are to some extent "pretending". No one "naturally" ...

 One Lord's Day this summer we found ourselves in a small seaside town in Normandy. As far as we could tell, there was no Evangelical an...

    One of the major theological issues for Christians to think through is continuity and change between Old and New Covenants.   One ...

  From The Rectory   The Puritans (the hotter sort of Protestants who flourished in the 17 th Century) are sometimes seen as figures of...

Tim Chester, Into His Presence: Praying with the Puritans (The Good Book Company, 2022) hb with ribbon 207pp   I’ve been enjoying using...

From The Rectory   Some commentators would argue that the contemporary West has rather lost its way. The old certainties of 1700, 1800, ...

  Acting Archdeacon of Hastings - Archdeacon’s Visitation – Charge to Churchwardens 2023 (Psalm 47) Matthew 16:13-20 Ephesians 4:1-16 ...

 For our parish magazine: From The Rectory   No hot takes on the news from me this month. I want to use this page to invite you, or welc...

 I wonder if we are sometimes a little hasty and impatient in reading Scripture. Maybe we are in a hurry to get through our daily readings,...

 Thomas Traherne speaking quite marvellously about the cross:  "(58) The Cross is the abyss of wonders, the centre of desires, the scho...

 In some circles, it is typical to start a sermon with a joke. But I can never remember any good ones.  Or something from the newspaper. But...