Springfield Church on the Fresh Expressions Website….

Fresh Expressions have just published an article I wrote (last night!) for them about the visit of ++Rowan to Springfield and the difference I believe that has made for us as a church. I’m in the process of writing a longer article about his visit to go up in the next day or two reflecting on his visit (in between everything else!).

New story about Rowan’s Visit on Sutton Guardian

There is an article in the Sutton Guardian about the visit of Rowan last Sunday to Springfield. I have also been sent a few wonderful photos from some of the photo agencies and will try and get them up later today.

Article on Archbishop of Canterbury’s website

Article on Archbishop of Canterbury’s website

Article now up talking about Springfield on the Archbishop’s website with a transcript and link to the video.

++Rowan’s interview with Isabella

You might be interested in what ++Rowan said about his move to Cambridge. Isabella had a very brief interview with him just before yesterday’s service: http://bit.ly/FPAci0

Bishop of Southwark competition!

It was great to have Bishop Christopher, the Bishop of Southwark visit Springfield last Sunday.

Springfield Church in Fresh Expressions…

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago over the telephone by Fresh Expressions about what we get up to at Springfield. They have now published the interview on their website.

After Downton Abbey…..

Well Downton Abbey has come to the end of another series. The plot lines have become crazier, but the costumes and the house have kept a beauty to them. What to watch now?

Maybe instead read the latest article written by my daughter, Isabella, for Varsity magazine about “A Very British Obsession” which looks at our continuing fascination with the period drama setting.

Ministering in Babylon….

Those nice people over at Fresh Expressions have just published a post that they commissioned me to write…..

Autumn SALT Magazine now online…

… well parts of it are!

Pop over to our website dedicated with articles from our latest SALT magazine.

Articles include ones on Soul Survivor, New Wine, Holiday Club, our first wedding and baptism at our new congregation as well as others.

Collect for the Week

A weekly collection of mainly religious stories that I thought were really interesting (click on links to read):

1. Would Jesus support Palestinian statehood bid. By Carl Medearis, very interesting religio-political take on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the role of Christian Zionists.
2. Archbishop Rowan Williams in conversation with comedian Frank Skinner - from news release can get to an audio of their conversation in Canterbury Cathedral
3. Pastor in the Present Tense - Interview with Eugene Peterson (responsible for the Message translation) about being a Pastor
4. The ten happiest jobs - complied by Steve Denning in Forbes magazine (there is also the ten most hated as well)
5. Why breaking up is so hard to do - wondered what and why the euro crisis is so important and what its about then this article by Martin Wolf of the FT is for you. You will need to sign up for the FT to get it (there is a free sign-up with limited number of articles you can read per month)
6. Ten Years On Really interesting article on the decline of the West by the Chief Rabbi and what to do about it.
7. Christ, the Church and Pat Robertson - Very moving and powerful rebuttal of Pat Robertson’s view that it is ok to divorce someone with Alzheimer and marry someone else by Russell Moore

Finally, my most popular post of the week (by numbers reading it that is) is

• Archbishop Rowan Williams to visit Springfield