Blogs & papers

Here's a link to the Church Times piece about the Palm Sunday service and procession that St John's shared with St Paul's Goodmayes. In a piece about the service and procession in the Ilford Recorder, Fr. Ben Rutt-Field said it reminded him of of festival processions that he had seen while on sabbatical in Japan.

I commented recently on Nick Baines' blog about the value of these kinds of stories in the local press saying:

"My experience, in a short spell of ordained ministry, is that if you give the local press stories regularly they will be used and won’t be significantly changed in the telling.

This means, at a local level, that it is possible to tell good news stories about Christianity that therefore challenge the more negative impressions that people pick up more generally from the national media.

Taking the time to do this (and it doesn’t involve a great deal of time) is, I think, something that Christian leaders should be encouraged and trained to do. This is, of course, dependent on an issue that you raised in an earlier blog; the extent to which local newspapers can survive the recession."

Philip Ritchie's blog got a mention this week in the Church of England Newspaper with a factual listing of his most frequent topics each beginning with the letter 'f'.

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Neal Morse - Lifeline.