Church Interest

In these recessionary times, churches are as hard hit financially as anyone.

The life of Susanna Wesley 1669-1742 is both intriguing and illuminating to explore. This book presents her life in ways that will astound the modern reader.

Local church life is changing radically and patterns of clergy training and deployment with it. Multi-congregational groupings are increasingly the norm with fewer stipendiary clergy and greater reliance on self-supporting and lay ministry.

@Pontifex has tweeted 700 times, follows 8 people, and has been on twitter since 2013...oh, and he's also the Pope!

Luminaries: Twenty Lives that Illuminate the Christian Way. Starting in the first century with St Paul and ending in the twentieth with St Oscar Romero, Rowan Williams invites you to reflect with him on the lives and legacies of twenty great Christians – saints, martyrs, poets, theologians and social reformers.

'I felt my heart strangely warmed.' That was how John Wesley described his transformational experience of God's grace at Aldersgate Street on May 24, 1738, an event that some mark as the beginning of the Methodist Church. Yet the story of Methodism, while clearly shaped by John Wesley's sermons and Charles Wesley's hymns, is much richer and more expansive.

Baptism, weddings and funerals bring the Church of England into close contact with hundreds of thousands of people every year. The ministry offered by local churches at these key times of life has been the subject of a widespread study with the aim of fostering best practice and deepening theological and biblical understanding of the occasional offices.

Through the Year with John Wesley refreshes and presents key passages from the theological and reflective writings of the Rev John Wesley, the renowned 'father of Methodism'