If you’ve not managed to catch it yet, here’s this week’s Faithroots Podcast to listen to or watch. We talk about how a church family collectively can experience a form of PTSD due to events in the life of the church. Key things: Causes can include: loss and bereavement including death, the departure of longstanding… Continue reading Church PTSD
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The Secret Father
I was speaking about the Lord’s Prayer on the Daily Dose the other day. You can watch back here or listen back here. A phrase stood out to me that I’d never really picked up on before. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is… Continue reading The Secret Father
The Cost of Living and Poverty
I’ve written a couple of articles about the Cost of Living Crisis and why we should care about it recently. The other day, I saw this comment on twitter retweeting a list of actions that are required if we are to tackle poverty. Well, there is one small problem with the suggestion and that is… Continue reading The Cost of Living and Poverty
The Daily Dose and Faithroots audio content
We’re going to take a break from #TheDailyDose for a little while after today’s recording. The plan is to be back for some specials over the Easter holidays when the plan is to complete John’s Gospel with a look at the accounts of Good Friday, Easter Sunday and the post resurrection events in John 18-21.… Continue reading The Daily Dose and Faithroots audio content
PTSD and church revitalisation
A little while back I wrote about how churches can experience a form of PTSD or complex PTSD. You see, a church can experience trauma leading to experiences and responses that affect the life of the church. Trauma for a church might include: A split where members of the church fall out, argue publicly and… Continue reading PTSD and church revitalisation
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What to do when you are praying
Over the past week I’ve focused #TheDailyDose on the order of service used by the Church of England for Morning Prayer. During lockdown quite a few people found it helpful to follow this service together on Facebook each morning. Although the service is liturgical and I’m personally from a non liturgical background, I generally prefer… Continue reading What to do when you are praying
COVID-19: The next step to normality or a reckless risk
Boris Johnson has indicated that plans to end all COVID-19 regulations will be brought forward from the end of March to early March with further announcements expected after the school half term holidays. In practice, for England (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will continue to have their own regulations and guidance) this means that there… Continue reading COVID-19: The next step to normality or a reckless risk
Are we about to go to war with Russia?
In last week’s podcast, we talked about the build-up of military tension on the Russian-Ukrainian border. I thought I’d devote a post to talking a bit more about how things might unfold. Of course, the nature of things is very volatile and unpredictable, meaning the chances that this post becomes very quickly out of date… Continue reading Are we about to go to war with Russia?
Does it add up?
The controversy around #PartyGate continues to rumble on. The Metropolitan Police have begun their investigation. Last week, Boris Johnson was reportedly sent a questionnaire by the police. Well, I understand that he likes a quiz. Whilst we await the outcome, people continue to speculate about what the implications will be if the Prime Minister is… Continue reading Does it add up?
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