Practising for Christmas

Check out our WEBA website for our Advent series starting today:

http://www.webassoc.org.uk/nurturing-the-habit-of-preparedness/

UK Baptists would do well to listen and learn from Justin Welby.

UK Baptists would do well to listen and learn from Justin Welby. Check out this article in the Guardian headed "Welby bids to defuse Church of England’s ‘demographic time bomb" 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/21/justin-welby-church-england-new-synod

When you read comments such as:  

The programme – which includes the redistribution of financial resources, training and education, and simplifying the arcane governance of the church – springs from alarm at the steady decline of congregations over recent decades.

“We’re in the last chance saloon,” said Pete Broadbent, bishop of Willesden and one of the architects of Reform and Renewal. “All the demographic evidence shows that, unless we do something in the next five or 10 years, we’re shot. There are those who say this [programme] is alien and who want to dig their heels in, but we’re facing a demographic time bomb.”

please let's not make the mistake of thinking we're immune from exactly the same issues. The time bomb is ticking!

If we don’t even think we have good news to share, why would anyone else?!

I simply wanted to applaud LICC for highlighting the need for Christians to engage in the world of fashion and creative industries. This interview with Simon Ward, CEO with the British Fashion Council, does just that:


http://www.licc.org.uk/resources/messengers-in-context-simon-ward/?utm_source=Receive+emails+from+LICC&utm_campaign=40bb49cbdb-201511_CwC_SelectivelyOutraged&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4c5e4c21df-40bb49cbdb-27625305&mc_cid=40bb49cbdb&mc_eid=4463c4fe4d