On reflection

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

THIS year I thought it would be a good idea to do a few sermons based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Written in England by an assembly of learned clergymen in the 1640s, this is a summary of Bi

I WAS lonely. Papa was a preacher and we lived and travelled in a painted wooden wagon, pulled by Jessie, a large and docile shire horse. We had few possessions; there was no room for what Papa called

WHO was Jonathan ‘Woody’ Henshall?” The question, boomed out over loudspeaker outside the funeral chapel, made Susan start. Her mind had wandered slightly and she felt suitably guilty. She was standin

A walk can take you deep into history’s long past and your own – as Guy Procter discovers.

Parish churches need the same campaigning energy that saved the great country houses 50 years ago