Having grown up in Paddock Wood, I was for the most part unaware that just up the road at the tiny, rural All Saints’ Church in Tudeley I would have found the only church in the world to have all its twelve windows decorated by the Russian artist Marc Chagall. When I became a Christian [...]
Ash Wednesday today and the start of Lent. I did my best to explain the 40 days ahead to a group of fourteen and fifteen year olds girls this morning in a local school’s assembly at 8.30 in the morning when I’m not sure who was the least awake and compos mentis – them or [...]
Regular readers will know that I had some ‘back and forth‘ with the CofE’s Communications Unit a few weeks ago over the technicalities of their website and SMS service. Indeed, as part of it, I was challenged to ‘follow the daily suggestions’ by Ben Wilson from the Comms Unit so how can I do anything [...]
I was surprised to see this press release hit the wires this morning when the Church of England announced Lent had begun! The Love Life, Live Lent campaign began with a call to carry out action number one on day one – namely to make someone laugh. Regular readers will know that I had some [...]
This week I have been mostly helping the Church of England with its Love Life, Live Lent project and specifically the SMS service. Following a previous post that touched on the subject, staff at their communications office have been in touch and we’ve been trying hard to get it working with a number of emails [...]
I missed this piece of news last Sunday but, according to the Sunday Telegraph, it appears that Lambeth Palace have plans to broadcast the Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermons via YouTube. Where do I begin with this one? I certainly don’t disagree with the motivations to try and reach young people and/or the Internet generation. Indeed, [...]
I have finally arrived. No longer am I simply a publishing professional, happy to take the words and thinking of others and turn them into something smart. I have switched sides (albeit briefly) and I am now a published author. I even have a free author’s copy to prove it! Okay, so it’s only one [...]
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