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Viewpoint September 2010

Submitted by alison bennett on Thu 09 September 2010

Stephen and I have just returned from our 10th annual camping trip to the New Wine Summer Conference at the Bath and West Showground. In glorious contrast to last year’s experience, we were blessed this year with good weather and good health, which when added to some excellent worship, teaching and prayer ministry resulted in a wonderfully refreshing week, a week in which we met with God, as well as with many old friends.

But New Wine is much more than a Summer Conference.

Viewpoint June 2010

Submitted by alison bennett on Mon 07 June 2010

Following Simon’s departure to deepest rural Wiltshire we have now entered that strange time affectionately known in the Anglican Church as an ‘Interregnum’. I looked this word up in the online dictionary Wikipedia, and it said that an interregnum is a ‘period of discontinuity of a government, organisation or social order’.

Of Bishops, Priests and Deacons

Submitted by Church Office on Wed 10 February 2010

On 9th February 2010 our new Diocesan Bishop, Rt Revd Christopher Foster was announced by Number 10, Downing Street. In the same week the General Synod of the Church of England has been debating the process by which women bishops might be appointed. The State and the Church authorities are intertwined in this issue about ministry and gender. Is the debate about equal opportunities or about being 'one in Christ Jesus'? Is it about conservative tradition or liberal trends? Is it about the nature of power or the call to sacrificial service?

Faith, Hope and Climate Change

Submitted by Simon Weeden on Tue 29 September 2009

A letter from the Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Mr Miliband, to faith leaders included this statement about politicians and faith groups. 'It is my view that climate change is too important to be left to politicians alone. Faith groups can play a key role in raising awareness of climate change issues and in galvanising individuals and communities to take action.'

Jesus, Money and the World

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue 15 April 2008

This Lent I have been reading a small book on Christian principles for handling money. We may think ‘But I’m not wealthy and I’m certainly not rich’. When, however, we compare levels of wealth around the world, we discover that we are rich when judged against the rest of the world.