Day: March 5, 2010

Fear-mongering in the UK

As we have previously reported, the House of Lords in the UK voted to permit religious bodies to perform and bless civil unions. Even though

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Denominations in decline in the UK

The decline is not helped by a few successful and somewhat deluded media churches, dotted here and there, nor even by the odd successful suburban church. Go to Bradford where evangelical churches struggle, because there is one media church that acts as a kind of vacuum cleaner over what’s left.

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Coming to prayer

When we come to prayer we bring with us, although perhaps unknowingly, all the disquiet that we have imposed on ourselves during the preceding hours or days. If we have not beforehand tried to keep our heart or our body in a state of order, truth and beauty, we cannot expect them to be suddenly transformed, just because we shut our eyes and want to be in the presence of God.

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